This may be tough to answer. According to THE ROSTER OF CONFEDERATE TROOPS, 
1861-1865, there were 22 men named James M. Smith who served from Virginia. 
There were additional J.M. Smiths as well as 50 named simply James Smith.

Knox Martin
SCV Tennessee Division Genealogist

The South is a land that has known sorrows; it is a land that has broken 
the ashen crust and moistened it with tears; a land scarred and riven by the 
plowshare of war and billowed with the graves of her dead; but a land of 
legend, a land of song, a land of hallowed and heroic memories. To that land 
every drop of my blood, every fiber of my being, every pulsation of my heart, 
is consecrated forever. I was born of her womb; I was nurtured at her breast; 
and when my last hour shall come, I pray God that I may be pillowed upon 
her bosom and rocked to sleep within her tender encircling arms. Edward Carmack
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