Other information concerning William Anderson Carter:

• Name: William Anderson Carter
• Sex:     M
• Birth:   15 APR1836 in Stokes County, North Carolina
• Death: 16 JUN 1917 in Mayodan, NC; Rockingham County, NC USA
• Note:

  William Anderson Carter, Private was a veteran of the War Between the States on the side of the Confederacy.
  Born in Stokes County, North Carolina where he resided as a farmer prior to enlisting at "Payne's" at age 21, March 8, 1862. Place and date wounded, not reported. Discharged on April 4, 1863 by reason of "atrophy of the muscles of the right leg caused by an injury of the knee joint." (North Carolina pension records indicate he was wounded near Yorktown, and West Point, Virginia, on unspecified dates.)
  Source: "North Carolina Troops 1861-1865 A Roster, Vol. VII Infantry 22nd-26th Regiments" compiled by Weymouth T. Jordan, Jr.
  
  Residence: Stokes County, North Carolina Occupation: Farmer
  Service Record:
  Enlisted as a Private on 08 March 1862 in Payne's at the age of 21
  Enlisted in Company H, 22nd Infantry Regiment North Carolina on 08 March 1862
  Absent wounded on 15 October 1862 at (Estimated day)
  Discharged on 04 April 1863
  Sources:
  North Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster. (NC Roster C) Published in 1993
  
  CARTER, WILLIAM A.
  State: NC Year: 1870
  County: Stokes County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule
  Township: Beaver Island Township Page: 109
  Database: NC 1870 Federal Census Index
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  Father: Winston Carter b: 15 FEB 1798 in Virginia
  Mother: Margaret Davis b: 1798 in Stokes County, North Carolina
  
  Marriage 1 Amanda Hill b: ABT. 1839

  • Married: 13 SEP 1860 in Stokes County, North Carolina

  Children

  1. William Jefferson Carter b: 1861
  2. James Haney Carter b: 1866
  3. Winston Marshall Carter b: 13 OCT 1868
  4. Amanda J. Carter b: JUL 1870
  5. Mary Margaret Carter b: 1874
  6. Walter Gideon Carter b: 1877

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