RICHARD CALHOUN SMITH
(May 7, 1837 - October 29, 1917)
Private, Company D., 8th Florida Infantry Regiment

Cpl. Hardy Smith B. 1839 D. April 3, 1863

Richard Calhoun Smith, his brother Hardy Smith, and their brother-in-law James Franklin Hull joined William Baya's Independent Company on November 18, 1861. Baya's Company would become Company D of the 8th Florida Infantry Regiment before joining the Army of Northern Virginia. Hardy was promoted to Corporal on December 1st, 1862. On December 11th, at the battle of Fredericksburg, the Smith brothers and most of their company were detached to assist the Mississippi brigade of General William Barksdale in harrassing Union engineers tasked with constructing a bridge across the Rappahannock. The brothers, and most of their company, were captured after two days of preventing a Union beachhead and were sent to Fort Monroe, Virginia. They were then transferred to City Point, Virginia for prisoner exchange. This exchange took place on January 6, 1863. A couple of months after Richard Calhoun and Hardy rejoined Company D of the 8th Florida, Hardy fell ill with dysentery. He was sent to Hospital #1 at Lynchburg, Virginia. He died on April 3, 1863 - he was 24 years old.

RICHARD CALHOUN SMITH
(May 7, 1837 - October 29, 1917)
Private, Company D., 8th Florida Infantry Regiment

1861-11-18 - Enlisted in Grayson's Artillery at Fort Marion (St. Augustine, Florida)
1862-02-01 - Fernandina, Florida
1862-03-10 - Evacuation of Fort Marion
1862-06-16 - Departure from Camp Leon, Tallahassee, Florida to Richmond, Virginia
1862-08-10 - Departure from Richmond, Virginia for campaign into Northern Virginia and Maryland
1862-08-29 - Second Manassas
1862-09-17 - Sharpsburg
1862-12-11 - Fredericksburg (Captured and taken to Fort Monroe)
1863-01-06 - Exchanged at City Point, Virginia
1863-05-02 - Chancellorsville
1863-06-03 - Gettysburg
1863-06-11 - Clear Springs
1863-06-30 - Winchester
1863-08-01 - Culpeper Court House
1863-10-13 - Bristoe Station
1863-11-30 - Mine Run
1864-05-04 - Wilderness
1864-05-24 - Spotsylvania Court House
1864-05-29 - Richmond
1864-06-01 - Cold Harbor
1864-06-27 - Petersburg
1865-01-21 - Departed on 30 days furlough
1865-02-20 - Cut off by "high-water at some places, and the yankees at other places"
1865-03-04 - Surrendered to Captain W.L. Hubbell of the 17th Connecticut Infantry at Fort Marion

1917-06-25 - Applied for pension
1917-10-29 - Died in Coffee County, Alabama