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Note: Eaton Smith According to the Virginia Historical Society Reference Archives publication entitled, "A Roster of North Carolina Troops 1861 - 1865," Private SMITH, Eaton, enlisted in the CSA in Halifax County, N.C. on May 16, 1862 for the duration of the war. He was listed in Company A, 3rd Battalion, N.C. Light Artillery. This reference book also states that he was "present and accounted for through December 1864." The reference also states that he was , "�Paroled at Greensboro, (NC) April 27, 1865. Deserted April 16, 1865." There is no further explanation. However, since the Civil War ended in Appomattox, VA on May 14, 1865, less than a month late, some stories about the surrender of Southern soldiers say thosemen who refused to turn in their arms to the Union were called "deserters."
Halifax County is located between Northampton County on the east and Warren County on the west and the Virginia/North Carolina border to the north.. Interstate 95 runs north and south through the county
The reference book "Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861 -1865, Vol. 1V" states: Company C went to Fort Caswell where many (troops) were captured and carried to Fort Fisher as prisoners and were surrendered at Greensboro by General J.E. Johnson.
Eaton C. Smith
Following the Civil War, Eaton C. Smith returned to Jackson, NC in Northampton County and married Ms.Martha Bass, Martha was the wodow of James Bass. The "Rite of Matrimoney" certificate, now in my possession, shows they were married on February 2, 1866.
During the following month on March 6, 1866, Mary Anne Bass (grandmother) was named guardian of "Harriett M. and James W. Bass. These were the orphans of James Bass. By March 4, 1867, Eaton C. Smith was named the guardian for Harriett Martha and James William Bass. Our research so has not revealed what happend to Mary Ann.
The North Carolina Census of 1870, taken in Seaboard Township, in Northampton County, lists Eaton Smith, (age 33), Martha (Coker/Bass), 34, John (age 2) Harriett Bass, 13, "living at home," William Bass, (age 10) "Farm Laborer", and James Harris, (Farm Laborer (age 15) "black". I now feel the John (age 2) mentioned in this Census is my grandfather, John Eden Smith. Therfore It was this J.E. Smith who married Ida Mae Scott (my grandmother) in Gaston Township, NC in 1891, Their wedding certificate is also in my possession.
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