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J.U. Carter
(1841 - 1913)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an unmarried 19 year old farmer living with his father, step-mother (?) and 4 young siblings on their small farm at Tallassee in Tallapoosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July 1863 to 7 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.
After the War
In 1880 he was a farmer in Coosa County, AL but by 1910 he was farming at Voca in McCulloch County, TX.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records 1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, & 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph of unknown provenance hosted by the Alabama Confederate Images Facebook page in 2019.
He married Mary Ann Moore (1844-1936) in December 1865 and they had 11 children.
Birth
06/10/1841; Tallapoosa County, AL
Death
07/19/1913; Voca, TX; burial in Voca Cemetery, Voca, TX
1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33071]
2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 33072]