Graham Dozier is managing editor of publications at the Virginia Historical Society and the compiler of Virginia's Civil War: A Guide to Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society.
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In May 1861, Virginian Thomas Henry Carter raised an artillery battery and joined the Confederate Army. Over the next four years, he rose steadily in rank from captain to colonel, placing him among the senior artillerists in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northe... SEE MORE