1819 - July 29, 1868) was an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

John Carraway Smith was born in South Carolina circa 1819.

He married Sarah Bellamy on December 15, 1848, in Madison, FL.

I, 2nd Regiment, Florida Cavalry on March 1, 1862, and served in that post until he was promoted Colonel[3] over the entire regiment on September 8, 1862, in Tallahassee, FL.

Smith only lived three years after the war ended, dying on July 29, 1868.