Captain Tod Carter, CSA

[Buckeye Bill]

Captain Tod Carter, Civil War Confederate Army Officer : A native of Franklin, Tennessee, He enlisted in the 20th Tennessee (CSA) Infantry, being commissioned as a Captain, and served in that regiment for most of the War, fighting at the Battles of Mill Springs, Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, the Atlanta Campaign and ultimately at Franklin. He was captured at Missionary Ridge, but escaped and made his way back to the Army, where he was given a position on the staff of General Thomas Benton Smith. At the November 30, 1864 Battle of Franklin, he was mortally wounded a little more then 500 yeards from his family's home, the Carter House. Found by family members after the battle, he would die two days later in his home, which is preserved today in Franklin as a Museum.

* Captain Tod Carter, CSA

* The Carter House

* Plaque Dedicated to Captain Tod Carter near the Carter House

* Captain Tod Carter CSA Grave Site at the Rest Haven Cemetery in Franklin, Tennessee

 

[donna]

He looks so young. He has Memorial on find a grave.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9392604

The house is lovely. We been to Franklin several times. There are so many well taken care of homes.

 

[Rio Bravo]

It must have been some comfort to his family that he was able to pass away in the house where he had been born, and not on some lonely part of a distant battlefield.
So few of the 20th Tennessee actually survived the war - I think just 34 Men survived from the original 880 who mustered on 12/6/1861, ok 6/12/1861 !

 

[Buckeye Bill]

I concur, Rio Bravo.......

This battle was a meat grinder!

I have read from different sources that the carnage surrounding the Carter House was absolutely nauseating.

This venue is highly recommended!!!

 

[Buckeye Bill]

* Bump for the death of Tod Carter on this day in 1864.

 

[Buckeye Bill]

* Bump for Anniversary of Tod's death in Franklin, Tennessee.