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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Levi M. Carter

(1839 - 1909)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his parents and 7 siblings on their farm near Danielsville in Madison County, GA. He enlisted on 11 June 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company D, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was furloughed home on 29 October and was there to at least 1 September 1863, and was paid at Richmond, VA on 17 October 1863, with no later military record.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Oglethorpe County, GA.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, as L.M. Carter. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900; his death date from Fannie Carter's 1919 application for his government headstone. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Winna Elizabeth Gunnels (1840-1920) in October 1860 and they had 7 children.

Birth

07/08/1839 in GA

Death

09/27/1909; Oglethorpe County, GA; burial in Lighthouse Evangelical Church Cemetery, Oglethorpe County, GA

Notes

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 33736]

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