Tag: Fourth Texas

• Benjamin Franklin Carter, Henry Johnson, and the Stories We Tell

  Benjamin Franklin Carter and Henry Johnson. It’s a story that seems to illustrate the American divide while harmonizing the country. A Union officer is killed in a battle; a Confederate officer so admires his opponent’s bravery that he buries the officer in his own coat. Later, that same Confederate officer is mortally wounded at the…

  Gordon Laws

  March 3, 2024

  Civil War, Confederate Soldiers, Gettysburg, Gettysburg Residents

  Benjamin Franklin Carter, Civil War, Fourth Texas, Henry Johnson, slavery, USCT