Cabe Freeman Smith

In 1860 he was a 30 year old laborer in Pensacola, FL. He was listed as a married 32 year old farmer from Greenville in Butler County, AL when he enlisted there on 5 July 1861. He mustered at Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 as a Private in Company G of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to a hospital in Charlottesville, VA on 23 September, home on furlough from 10 October into January 1863, then detailed as a nurse in a Richmond, VA hospital into April. He was wounded again at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863, by a gunshot to his elbow, and at the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864, by a gunshot to his head. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital to at least September 1864. He was captured at Petersburg, VA in April 1865.

In 1880 he was a farmer in Geneva County, AL and was in Escambia County, AL by 1900. In 1907 he lived in Pollard, AL.

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, as Capen F. S. Smith, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880, also as F. Capon Smith, his July 1900 application for a Confederate pension, and the 1907 Alabama Census of Confederate veterans.

He married Nancy C Beauchamp (1832-) in about 1860 and they had 10 children by 1878.

02/18/1829; Abbeville, AL

06/05/1917; Monroe County, AL