Confederate Soldier Captain James Theodore 'Tod' Carter^{[1, 2, 3]}

1840 - 1864  (24 years)

• Name	James Theodore 'Tod' Carter
  Title	Confederate Soldier
  Prefix	Captain
  Born	24 Mar 1840	Williamson County, Tennessee
  Gender	Male
  Died	2 Dec 1864	Williamson County, Tennessee
  Buried	Rest Haven Cemetery, Williamson County, Tennessee
  Person ID	I547450550	My Reynolds Line | Descendants of Giles Carter of Henrico
  Last Modified	14 Feb 2022

  
  

  Father	Fountain Branch Carter,   b. 6 Apr 1797, Franklin, Williamson Co., Tennessee ,   d. 22 Aug 1871, Franklin, Williamson Co., Tennessee  (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Mary Armistead 'Polly' Atkinson,   b. 4 Jan 1806, Halifax County, Virginia ,   d. 15 Sep 1852, Williamson Co., Tennessee  (Age 46 years)
  Married	28 Jun 1823	Williamson County, Tennessee   [4]
  Family ID	F518495103	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Captain Theodorick Carter ptheodorickcarter.jpg
  		Carter House, Franklin Co., Tennessee Carter_House_Franklin_TN_front.jpg
  		Rear View Carter House, Franklin, TN Carter_House_Franklin_TN_rear.jpg

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Tod [Theodorick] Carter p547450550TodCarter.jpg
  		Captain James Theodore 'Tod' Carter-The Battle of Franklin The Tennessean Dec 5, 1914
  		Carter House arch_roi14_carter_house_2010.pdf

  
  

  Histories » Slide Show		Dr. Moscow B Carter-Battle of Franklin The Tennessean Sep 18, 1949
  		Dr. Moscow B Carter-Battle of Franklin (2) The Tennessean Sep 18, 1949
  		Dr. Moscow B Carter-Battle of Franklin (3) The Tennessean Sep 18, 1949
  		Fountain Branch Carter-Carter House Association to Restore 1830 Home The Tennessean Aug 12, 1952
  		Carter House Franklin Teneessee Fountain Branch Carter arch_roi14_carter_house_2010.pdf
  		Tod Carter-Story of a Southern Boy Nashville Banner Nov 30, 1950

  
  

• Notes

  At the Battle of Franklin, (Nov 30, 1864) resident Tod Carter was mortally wounded five hundred feet from his boyhood home. When the Army of Tennessee crossed the Georgia-Tennessee border, the soldiers were heartened by a sign on the side of the road that read ?Tennessee, A Grave or A Free Home.? Those words must have had special meaning for Tod Carter, the middle child in the Carter family, who had enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861. By 1864, he was the assistant quartermaster to Brigadier General Thomas Benton Smith in the Army of Tennessee. On the eve of the Battle of Franklin, a friend described Carter as ?in a perfect ecstasy of joy? to be seeing his family the next day. As part of Bates?s division, Smith?s brigade launched their attack at Franklin from the far left of the Confederate line. Although Tod Carter?s quartermaster duties did not require him to fight, he would not hear of it. He mounted his horse and rode ahead of the brigade, shouting ?Follow me boys, I?m almost home!? About five hundred feet from his front yard, Tod Carter was struck by a Union bullet and tumbled into the blood-soaked grass. After the day?s carnage had ended, the Carter family emerged from their cellar only to be greeted by General Smith with the news of Tod?s wounding. By lantern-light, Smith and the Carters spent hours searching the corpse-strewn battlefield for the young captain. His sisters? screams announced to the party that the search was over. Dying and insensible, Tod was carried back to the Carter House near dawn and set down in his sister Annie?s room. He died the next day, just one of the nearly ten thousand family tragedies that the battle wrought. Learn more facts about the battle here: http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/franklin/ten-facts/ten-facts-about-the-battle-of.html

  
  

• Sources

  [S100] Internet Source. 1860 census, Franklin, Tennessee: 1st District, June 22, 1860 CARTER Fountain 63 F W Farmer 37000 25000 Va Sallie H. 10 F W Tn McKINNY Ann V. 19 F W Tn CARTER Fannie 15 F W Tn S Theodrick 21 M W Tn Frank 17 M W Tn Sallie B. 20 M W Tn Fountain 6 F W Tn Ruth 3 F W Fountain Branch CARTER b: 4/6/1797 Historic Site: Carter House - Civil War Era (State Owned) Williamson County, Tennessee http://www.carter-house.org/ "Built in 1830 by Fountain Branch Carter..." Name: Fountain Branch Carter Birth: 6 APR 1797 in Franklin, Tennessee Death: 22 AUG 1871 Father: Francis Watkins Carter b: 6 DEC 1772 in Henrico County, Virginia Mother: Sarah Holcomb Anderson b: 11 MAY 1777 Marriage 1 Mary Armistead Atkinson b: 4 JUL 1806 Married: 1823 in Franklin, Tennessee [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9392604. 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 hor 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. He was also a journalist of sorts, writing reports to several southern newspapers under the name of "Mint Julip". (bio by: LeeWhite) [S47] Newspaper Article. From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle June 18,1858---Married June 17, by Reverend S.P. Chestnut, Mr. James T. Carter and Miss Mary Balthrop, all of this city. [S220] Jean Carter Wilson, http://person.ancestry.com/tree/66047723/person/36150763548/facts.