Captain Theodrick (Tod) Carter Plaque: The Carter House, Franklin, Tennessee

CAPTAIN THEODRICK (TOD) CARTER

20th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Smith’s Brigade

Bate’s Division, Cheatham’s Corps,

Army of Tennessee

C.S.A.

Born at the Carter House March 24, 1840 and educated at Harpeth Academy.  He was an attorney-at-law and Master Mason.  Tod enlisted in Co. H, 20th Tenn. Infantry May 1, 1862.  Appointed Assistant Quarter Master on Oct. 24, 1862 and served as war correspondent for the Chattanooga “Daily Rebel” using the name “Mint Julep”.

Capt. Carter Participated in Most of the Army of Tenn. Battles.  He was captured at Chattanooga on Nov. 25, 1863, but escaped from a prison train in Pennsylvania Feb. 1864.  He retured to the army in March 1864 serving in the Atlanta and Ten. Campaigns.  Mortally wounded 200 yards Southwest of his home on Nov. 30, 1864 in the Battle of Franklin and died at the Carter House Dec. 2, 1864.

“Rest soldier rest, you are not forgotten, For you did not die in vain.”

Plaque donated by Compatriot G. Daniel Clark the Tod Carter Camp #854, sons of Confederate Veterans.

SOURCE: Interpretive Marker, just outside the back door of The Carter House Visitor Center, The Carter House, Franklin, Tennessee