jR, thanks for the quick response. I do know that this guy (yeah, there are a lot of Benjamin Franklin Smiths out there) survived the war. I checked the 1860 Census one time and found a B. F. Smith in Cass County (renamed Bartow in 1861), Ga. who was married to an Elizabeth. They were both young. In the 1880 Census, I believe that he, along with the same Elizabeth, is listed as being 39 years old and a blacksmith. My uncle seems to think he was a middle-aged man, also a blacksmith, during the War. If my B. F. Smith is correct, he would have been in his early twenties at the time of the conflict. The reason I believe this man is likely to be my great-great-grandfather is that his son was born in 1862 and named Jefferson Davis Smith (same as my great-grandfather). My great-grandfather Jefferson Davis Smith was a railroad conductor and died in 1925 in New Orleans. As a teenager during the Great Depression, my grandfather (also Jefferson Davis Smith) left New Orleans with his mother and moved to the family farm in Hall's Station (near Adairsville), Bartow County, Georgia.

I've just never been able to find this same B. F. Smith's name on a muster roll.