The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-03
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COLONEL CARTER.
Gallant Artillery Officer An.
swers Final Summons
in King William.
BRILLIANT RECORD
ON BATTLEFIELD
Served as Railroad Commissioner
OF Virginia, Going Out With
the Advent of Malone.
Funeral Will Take
Place Here To-
Morrow.
!. oLoNEL THOMAS H. CARTER
one OF the most gallant and
gifted artillery officers of the
= Army OF Northern Virginia.

one OF the most gallant and
gifted artillery officers of the
~ Army OF Northern Virginia,
died at "Romancoke." the resi-.
dence OF his son-in- law, Captain Robert
Z. Lee. Jr., in King William county.
yesterday morning at II o'clock.
Colonel Carter, who was son Of
Thomas Nelson Carter and Juliet
Gaines Carter, and first cousin, on>e
removed, of General Robert Il. Lee.
was born on June Is, 1881 and was
consequently nearly seventy-seyen
years old. He was graduate Of the
Virginia Military Institute, and after
wards graduated In medicine at the
University of Virginia, having taken
the degree of N. D. In one session.
From the University of Virginia he
went to Jefferson Hospital. in Phila-
delphia, and while there voluntarily
TOOK charge of the smallpox hospital.
After having spent a year or two in
reaping tile advantages of hospital ex-
perience. he was induced by his father
to take charge of his plantation. Pam
patike," in King William county, which
he managed with great success.
Gallant War Service.
AT the very beginning of the war
Colonel Carter organized the King
William Artillery OF whick he was
elected captain. He served throughout
the war with exceptional distinction
and gallantry, having been promoted
by regular gradation up to the high
position of colonel of artillery. It can
be safely said that there was no officer
of his rank in the Confederate Army
whc stood higher with his superiors
and men than did Colonel Carter. At
ftr., I,x ~ -
his battery so splendidly that General
D. H. HILL. who had never seen him
before. said he would rather be the
captain Of that battery than to be Pres
ident of the Confederacy. He went
in with 125 men, and the next morning
there were only sixty-fve to answer
the roll call.
He also won distinction at ChanceI-
lorsville, where the firing Of his guns
set fire to and destroyed the Cham
cellor house, and where he was per-
sonally complimented by General Lee,
and at Cold Harbor, Manassas. Sharps-
burg. Gettysburg, Spotsylvana, Win
chester and Cedar Hill. On almost
every other field on which the Army of
Northern Virginia was engaged, his
services were conspicuous.
Pride of the Artillery.
Colonel Carter's early training and
his natural gifts as soldier made
him SO conspicuous as an artillerist,
that he was often referred to as the
pride of the artillery of the Army of
Northern Virginia. He was wounded
at Winchester but not seriously, and
as soon as he was able to do so. he re-
turned to the field and surrendered
with the army at Appomattox.
After the surrender he returned to
his farm, 'Pampatike." and remained
there until 1878. when he was elected
Railroad Commissioner of Virginia on
the creation of the office, and served
until the regime Of General Malone,
when. along with all other officers
who were what We're then known as
ebt-payers." he was supplanted.
Later on, he was elected one of the
three arbitrators of the Southern Rail-
way and Steamship Association. and
after serving In that capacity to the
satisfaction of all concerned. he was
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