July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
CARTER, George Washington (1828–1901), minister and educator, Confederate colonel, legislator, and diplomat. In January 1860 the Texas Methodist Conference invited him to become president of Soule University at Chappell Hill, Texas. After participating in the Secession Convention in 1861, Carter resigned his position and returned to Virginia, where the Confederate secretary of war authorized him to recruit a regiment for the army. He returned to Texas, raised three regiments instead of one, and planned to arm his recruits with lances. The regiments-his own Twenty-first Texas Cavalry, Franklin C. Wilkes's Twenty-fourth Texas Cavalry, and Clayton C. Gillespie's Twenty-fifth Texas Cavalry-became known as Carter's Lancers. War-date Autograph Letter Signed, "Geo. W. Carter" 1pp., Chappell Hill (TX), August 10, 1864, 8-1/2" x 10-1/2", to his brother, in part: "…I am very sick now with ague & general prostration caused by my stay in Ark & La…I have resigned my position as Col. in the army…they offered me a promotion but not in a form to please me…". VG .
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