Their names are written with the pen of unforgetting love on the hearts of their countrymen and on the living pages of history. We, the members of the Bar of Alabama, shall ever cherish their memories among the soldiers and patriots, who sleep in the soil of France, and who gave their lives for us, for their country and for humanity, to the end that the right might triumph and prevail and that in the future the world may have enduring peace. Your committee respectfully asks that the sketches prepared by the Committee be published in the proceedings of the Alabama State Bar Association. Respectfully submitted, Walter S. Smith, Chairman. Lloyd G. Bowers, W. E. James, W. T. Sanders, Jr. CARL CLEVELAND SMITH Carl Cleveland Smith, son of Major Woodie B. Smith and wife, Sallie C. (Griffin) Smith, was born in Lineville, Alabama, on August 5, 1886. Both his father and paternal and maternal grandfathers were Confederate soldiers. At the age of fourteen, the subject of this sketch resolved to study law and to become a lawyer. After graduating from Lineville College, he taught school two years at Talladega Springs and there earned the money with which he paid his way through the University of Alabama Law School, graduating with the degree of LL. B., in the class of 1912. A few weeks after graduation, he located in Talladega and began the practice of his profession. He was gentle, quiet, modest and unassuming; his habits were exemplary and his life was clean and above reproach. He was a close student of the law, possessed a good legal mind, prepared his cases well, and in a town. that has always been famous for the ability and high standing of its bar was slowly but surely forging his way to the front. He enjoyed the friendship and esteem of bench, bar and of all the people among whom he lived and labored. The friends he made he held with hooks of steel. He cared not for rank nor station but sought to win and climb upward in his profession on merit alone. Possibly the most notable case in which he was of counsel that was appealed to the Supreme Court of Alabama is the case of Lewis v. Isbell National Bank, 198 Ala. 484, (73 S. Rep. 655.) He closed his office on the afternoon of May 31, 1918, to answer the call of his country. As he bade some of his mutual friends good-bye, he told them that he would never come back to Talladega. Alas, it proved to be only too true. On the morning of June 1, 1918, he quietly slipped away from the old southern town of Talladega and boarded a train for Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C. At Camp Jackson he was assigned to 16th Company, 4th Training Battalion. He remained here until June 24, 1918, when he was transferred to Company B, 324th Infantry, Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C. After four or five weeks' training at Camp Sevier, he entrained with his Company for Camp Mills, New York, from which point he soon thereafter embarked for France, where he arrived on August 6, 1918. On August 26, 1918, he was transferred to Company B, 167th U. S. Infantry, whose ranks had been greatly depleted by heavy casualties, both killed and wounded, in the battle of Chateau-Thierry and the other engagements in which Alabama's immortal regiment won eternal fame and glory. It was past the river Ourq and north of ChateauThierry that he was transferred to Company B, 167th Infantry. Soon thereafter the 167th Infantry was rushed to the St. Mihiel Salient. After a three days' march through a cold, disagreeable rain, over muddy roads and through darkness, the 167th Infantry arrived at Seicheprey near the hour of midnight and went into the trenches just before our artillery began to bombard the enemy. At 5:45 o'clock on the morning of September 12th, Carl Smith was one of the first men of Company B to go over the top in the first exclusively great American offensive of the war. With members of his Company and of his regiment falling all around him, he worked his way through wire entanglements and over difficult territory for a distance of about three kilometers, when he fell pierced through the lung by a machine gun bullet. Members of his Company say that he received the fatal wound about 10:00 o'clock on the morning of September 12th-the day on which his five brothers at home registered for service. He received first-aid treatment immediately on the battlefield, but his wound proved fatal and he died on the battlefield before he could be evacuated to the hospital. He was buried near Essey, a bombarded French town, out of which he aided in driving the enemy. At the same time and place, several other members of Alabama's immortal regiment were buried, and among the number Captain Gardner Greene, of Company C, 167th Infantry, another Alabama lawyer with whom Carl C. Smith was closely associated prior to the battle of St. Mihiel. Carl C. Smith and other members of the 167th Infantry, who were killed at this point, were given a battlefield funeral which is one of the highest honors that can be given a soldier who dies on the battlefield. With the band playing softly a funeral dirge and with shells bursting all around, a few simple words were spoken by the Chaplain of the 151st Field Artillery-a Professor in a Theological Seminary at Cambridge, Mass., and the remains of Carl C. Smith were laid to rest in a soldier's grave in the soil of France. His noble, pure life was the greatest sacrifice his family, who loved him dearly, could offer upon the altar of their country. Colonel William P. Screws, Commander of the 167th Infantry, in a letter written to Walter S. Smith from Sinzigon-Rhine, Germany, under date of December 21, 1918, says among other things: "Carl Smith had the reputation of |