A Gunner in Lee's Army: The Civil War Letters of Thomas Henry Carter

Contents

CONTENTS Foreword by Peter S. Carmichael • xi Acknowledgments • xv Editorial Methods and Notes • xix Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE Life before the War 7 CHAPER TWO 1861 15 September–29 December 1861 25 CHAPTER THREE From Northern Virginia to the Peninsula 8 January–1 May 1862 85 CHAPTER FOUR To Maryland and Back 13 July–17 December 1862 127 CHAPTER FIVE Winter Quarters 20 January–25 June 1863 163 CHAPTER SIX Guarding the Rapidan 18 September–27 December 1863 197 CHAPTER SEVEN From the Wilderness to the Valley 17 March–31 December 1864 233 CHAPTER EIGHT War’s End 1 January–7 March 1865 281 CHAPTER NINE Life after the War 297 APPENDIX Selected Genealogy of the Thomas Henry Carter Family 313 Bibliography • 315 Index • 329 ILLUSTRATIONS Letter written by Tom Carter to his wife, Susan, on 23 October 1862 • xxi Susan Roy Carter, ca. 1858 • 17 Robert E. Rodes • 61 Robert E. Lee • 110 Thomas J. Jackson • 138 Postwar portrait of Tom Carter in Confederate uniform • 234 John B. Gordon • 257 Jubal A. Early • 258 Pampatike, King William County, Virginia • 301 Tom Carter in the 1870s • 302 Tom and Susan Carter posing with students at the University of Virginia in the late 1890s • 309 This page intentionally left blank ...