William J. Carter

Private, Company A, 40th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, CSA

Promoted to Private March 10, 1862

Captured July 4, 1863 at Vicksburg, Mississippi

Posted to Hospital at Marietta, Georgia November-December 1863

Captured June 24, 1864 at Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia

Released June 12, 1865 at Camp Morton, Indiana