Thomas J. Carter
Thomas J. Carter was born around 1840 in Ohio to Grayson Carter and Cassandra Smith. His father was a coal miner and shoemaker who owned $150 of real estate and $200 of personal property by 1860. The family moved to Jefferson, Pennsylvania, in the 1840s before settling in Millsboro, Pennsylvania, in the 1850s.
He enlisted in the Union army on September 4, 1862, and mustered in as a private in Company K of the 140th Pennsylvania Infantry later that day. The regiment took part in the Battle of Chancellorsville and the Battle of Gettysburg. Carter died at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863. As his brother George informed their parents, Thomas had returned from a hospital in Washington, D.C., only days before the battle began. George “dident want him to go in the battle but he said that the news never should go home that he died a coward.” George insisted that he had “died a good souger [soldier]” and “fell in a good Caus.”
DATABASE CONTENT
| (1300) | Carter, Thomas | 1841 | 1863-07-02 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Private
- Rank out: Private
- Rank highest: Private
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 3
People - Records: 13
- (1300) Carter, Thomas is the [sibling of] (1287) Carter, George W.
- (1300) Carter, Thomas is the [cousin of] (1290) Carter, Samuel J.
- (1300) Carter, Thomas is the [sibling of] (1295) Carter, William
- (1300) Carter, Thomas is the [sibling of] (1296) Pyle, Eliza Jane
- (1300) Carter, Thomas is the [cousin of] (1299) Carter, Jesse M.
- (1288) Carter, Grayson is the [parent of] (1300) Carter, Thomas
- (1289) Carter, Cassandra is the [parent of] (1300) Carter, Thomas
- (1292) Carter, John is the [grandparent of] (1300) Carter, Thomas
- (1293) Carter, Rebecca is the [grandparent of] (1300) Carter, Thomas
- (1303) Carter, Sarah A. is the [aunt/uncle of] (1300) Carter, Thomas
- (1304) Carter, Benjamin F. is the [sibling of] (1300) Carter, Thomas
- (1306) Carter, Sarah Ann is the [sibling of] (1300) Carter, Thomas
- (1308) Conaway, Ezra is the [cousin of] (1300) Carter, Thomas
Places - Records: 2
Regiments - Records: 1
- (436) [enlisted] [K] ~ 140th Pennsylvania Infantry
SOURCES
1850 and 1860 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; George W. Carter to Grayson Carter and Cassandra Carter, 11 July 1863, Nau Collection.
