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794 fighting. The following winter was spent in camp at Frederickshall, in Louisa county. The opening of the campaign of 1864 found him in the Wilderness, where the artillery could not effectively take part. At Spottsylvania Court House, on May 10th, he was heavily engaged to the left of the "bloody angle," losing, in forty minutes, 18 men killed and wounded and 25 captured, and also losing 30 horses, including his own. With the remnant of his command he lay behind the line of battle all day May 12th, hoping to be able to recover the guns that had been taken by Hancock's men. On the 18th he aided in the disastrous repulse of the attack of the Sixth corps and Barlow's division, and on June 1st, fighting in the lines to the left of Cold Harbor, he rendered effective aid in the repulse of Baldy Smith's Federal corps. In August he engaged in a series of fights near New Market heights on the north side of the James. The Third Howitzers was the only artillery which participated in Gen. Tige Anderson's handsome repulse of Hancock's troops at this point, and was specially complimented by General Anderson. On September 29th, Carter's battery was on picket near Four Mile Creek church with two guns, supported by the Texas brigade and Gay's cavalry, and aided in repulsing a Federal attack. The line being broken to the right they retired to Laurel Hill church, where, supported by the cavalry, they held the enemy in check, being the only troops between the Federals and Richmond, until Confederate forces could be thrown into the fortified lines. In October his battery defended the Darbytown road against a determined attack. He served thus north of the James until the city was evacuated. At Deatonville, during the retreat, the column he accompanied was charged by Sheridan's cavalry, but the battery was quickly unlimbered and the attack repulsed. In this affair he received a slight flesh wound on the breast from a fragment of shell. Finally, at Appomattox, the guns which the Howitzers had borrowed from the enemy in 1863, were returned, and Captain Carter and his command were paroled. Since then he has made his home at Richmond. A few years after the war he reorganized the Howitzers and was elected captain, as which he served five years. He then held for two years the rank of major of the First battalion of artillery and during that time served in the suppression of illegal oyster dredging on Chesapeake bay and of a negro uprising at Danville. He is a member of G. E. Pickett camp, Confederate Veterans.

Frank Noble Carver, now prominent in the building circles of Washington, D. C, was born in Charles county, Md., December, 1843. He was reared and educated at Washington, and when in his youth the crisis arrived between the North and South, he allied himself heartily with the cause of Virginia. In April, 1861, the Washington Volunteers were organized at Alexandria for service in the Virginia army, and he enlisted in this command, afterward being transferred with a part of the battalion to the First Virginia, as Company E. With this regiment he served as a private until the reorganization at Yorktown, taking part meanwhile in the first battle of Manassas. At the reorganization he became a member of the Seventh Virginia infantry and a few days later participated in the engagement at Williamsburg, where he was seriously wounded in the left thigh and fell into the hands of the enemy. Destined to endure the privations of a prisoner of war for a time, he was sent to Fortress Monroe and two months later to Fort Delaware, whence,