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From the 2nd, Companies D, E, and G, under the command of Captain William Z. Leitner of Company E, were almost in the center of the stone wall on Marye's Heights. After the days fighting, Sergeant Richard Rowland Kirkland of Company E/G gave water to the wounded union soldiers, earning him the nickname "The Angel of Marye's Heights". Soon ...
A Union sentry guards the bridge at Strawberry Plains, ca. 1864. In the weeks following the bridge burnings, William Carter returned to Kentucky to continue to pressure Union commanders to invade East Tennessee. William Pickens, Daniel Stover, and Alfred Cate all fled to Kentucky and enlisted in the Union Army. [1]
11th South Carolina; 21st South Carolina; 25th South Carolina; 27th South Carolina; 7th South Carolina Battalion; Contingent of Lt. Col. John D. Taylor (WIA): 2nd Regiment-1st Battalion North Carolina Artillery; Adams's Battery (Company D, 13th Battalion, North Carolina Light Artillery) Contingent of Maj. William A. Holland: 40th North Carolina
Cpt William W. Hance (w), Cpt John C. Sumner (k), Cpt John K. G. Nance; 7th South Carolina: Ltc Elbert Bland (w) 8th South Carolina: Cpt Eli T. Stackhouse; 15th South Carolina: [3] Col William D. DeSaussure; 3rd South Carolina Battalion: Ltc William G. Rice; Barksdale's Brigade BG William Barksdale. 13th Mississippi: Col John W. Carter
2nd South Carolina: Col John D. Kennedy; 3rd South Carolina: Maj Robert C. Maffett; 7th South Carolina: Col Elbert Bland; 8th South Carolina: Col John W. Henagan; 15th South Carolina: Ltc Joseph F. Gist; 3rd South Carolina Battalion: Ltc William G. Rice; Barksdale's Brigade BG William Barksdale. 13th Mississippi: Col James W. Carter
Perhaps the most brazen wartime act in which East Tennessee Convention delegates engaged was the East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy, an attempt to destroy nine railroad bridges across the region to make way for a Union invasion. William B. Carter, who had been a member of the Carter County delegation at the convention, was the mastermind ...
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William Ernest Carter (June 19, 1875 – March 20, 1940) was an American millionaire, polo player, and survivor of the RMS Titanic. [1] [2] Early life.