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Brigadier General John Carpenter Carter, P.A.C.S.
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Brigadier General John C. Carter entered the Confederate service in 1861 as a captain in
the Thirty-eighth Tennessee infantry. He was still a captain at the battle of Shiloh,
where he won the praise of Col. R. F. Looney, commander of his regiment, who declared that
"Captain Carter deserved the highest praise for his great coolness and high courage
displayed throughout the entire engagement. At one time he took the flag, and urging his
men forward, rendered me great assistance in advancing the entire regiment." His
promotion was rapid through the grades of major and lieutenant-colonel to that of colonel
of the regiment. He had reached this latter position when, at the battle of Perryville, he
commanded his regiment in one of the hottest fights of the war. Here he won fresh plaudits
for his gallant bearing in the presence of the enemy. His brigade was led in this battle
by Col. John H. Savage, and the division by Brig. Gen. Daniel S. Donelson, of the right
wing under Major-Gen!
eral Cheatham. At the battle of Murfreesboro, Donelson's brigade still formed a part
of Cheatham's division, which took an active part in the grand charge which drove the
Federal right a distance of between three and four miles, capturing many prisoners,
cannon, small-arms, wagons and other spoils of victory. In this brilliant attack Colonel
Carter again led his regiment with his accustomed skill and courage. At Chickamauga,
Colonel Carter commanded his regiment in Wright's brigade. At the time of the battle
of Missionary Ridge he was with his regiment at Charleston, Tenn. He succeeded Gen. Marcus
J. Wright in command of his Tennessee brigade, and after leading it for some time as
colonel in the Atlanta campaign, he was promoted to brigadier-general with temporary rank,
July 7, 1864. At Jonesboro, September 1st, he was in temporary command of Cheatham's
division. He led his brigade in Brown's division at Franklin, November 30, 1864, up to
the enemy's works, but fell mortally!
wounded in the charge, and gave up his life for the cause so dear to his heart.
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Source: Evans, Clement, ed. Confederate Military History, Vol. VIII, Confederate
Publishing Company, Atlanta, GA, 1899
The above is from the following web page:
http://members.aol.com/jweaver303/tn/carter.htm
Return to the Tennessee Civil War Home Page
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http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/carpentc.shtml
Carpenter, Connie (Mrs. Phinney)
Cycling, Speed skating
b. Feb. 26, 1957, Madison, WI
Shortly before her fifteenth birthday, Carpenter finished seventh in the 1,500-meter speed
skating event at the 1972 Olympics. She won the U. S. outdoor over-all championship in
1976, but injured an ankle and missed the Olympics.
Like most speed skaters, Carpenter trained on a bicycle during the off-season. After her
ankle injury, she began cycling competitively and won the national road and pursuit
championships in 1976, 1977, and 1979.
Carpenter suffered a concussion in a fall and temporarily quit cycling to return to the
University of California-Berkeley, where she took up rowing. She was a member of the crew
that won the 1980 national collegiate championship in the four-oared shell with coxswain.
Carpenter returned to cycling in 1981 and won the national road and two-points
championships that year. She was also the national two-points champion in 1982 and
criterium champion in 1982 and 1983. Carpenter set a world record of 3:49.53 in winning
the 1983 world pursuit championship. The following year, she became the first U. S.
cyclist since 1912 to win an Olympic medal.
Rebecca Twigg of the U. S. took the lead in the Olympic road race with 50 meters to go,
but Carpenter pulled even just 3 meters from the tape, then eased out of the saddle and
threw her arms forward to propel her bike across the finish line less than half a wheel
length ahead of Twigg. It was a trick she'd learned from her husband, Davis Phinney,
who won a bronze in the team time trial.
Afterward, Carpenter said that the crowd of 200,000 people that lined the course in
suburban Los Angeles definitely helped U. S. cyclists. "What made the Olympics
special," she said, "was that a number of us had raced in the world
championships several times where the support wasn't there, so we appreciated the
support in the Olympics."
International Women's Sports Hall of Fame
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Carpenter, "Bill" (William S. Jr.)
Football
b. Sept. 30, 1937, Woodbury, NJ
Carpenter became famous as the "lonely end" at the U. S. Military Academy in
1958 and 1959. Army Coach "Red" Blaik devised the lonely end formation, in which
Carpenter was split wide and never entered the huddle. Instead, plays were conveyed to him
through hand signals from the quarterback.
As a junior in 1958, Carpenter caught 22 passes for 453 yards and 2 touchdowns. He was
named an All-American in 1959, when he had 43 receptions for 591 yards and 4 touchdowns.
Although he had to enter military service after graduation, the 6-foot-2, 210-pound
Carpenter was drafted by the Oakland Raiders of the AFL and the Baltimore Colts of the
NFL, but he elected to became a career military officer, eventually rising to the rank of
general.
College Football Hall of Fame
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Carpenter, John Alden
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876–1951, American composer, b. Park Ridge, Ill.; pupil of J. K.
Paine at Harvard and of Elgar. His music, refined and skillfully written, influenced by
French impressionism, often conveys the spirit and the scenes of American life in such
works as the orchestral suite Adventures in a Perambulator (1914) and the ballets Krazy
Kat (Chicago, 1921) and Skyscrapers (New York, 1926). A Spanish flavor and jazz,
frequently elements in his music, are both found in Patterns (1932) for orchestra. Other
important works are his ballet The Birthday of the Infanta (Chicago, 1919), a violin
concerto (1937), a concertino for piano and orchestra (1915), songs, symphonies, and
chamber music.
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Carpenter, George Rice
Carpenter, George Rice, 1863–1909, American educator, b. Labrador, grad. Harvard, 1886.
After study abroad, he returned to teach at Harvard (1888–90) and Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (1890–93). From 1893 he was professor of rhetoric at Columbia. He wrote a
number of textbooks on literature and rhetoric and biographies of Longfellow, Whittier,
and Whitman.
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Carpenter, Edward
Carpenter, Edward, 1844–1929, English author. Although ordained a minister in 1869, he
became a Fabian socialist in 1874 and renounced religion. Among his works on social reform
are Towards Democracy (1883–1902), a long unrhymed poem revealing the influence of his
friend Walt Whitman; England's Ideal (1887); Civilization: Its Cause and Cure (1889);
and Love's Coming of Age (1896), which treats relations between the sexes.
See the autobiographical My Days and Dreams (1916); E. Delavenay, D. H. Lawrence and
Edward Carpenter (1971).
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Carpenter, Malcolm Scott
Carpenter, Malcolm Scott, 1925–, American astronaut, b. Boulder, Colo. The second American
to go into orbital flight around the earth, he made his historic and suspenseful flight on
May 24, 1962. In his three-orbit trip he repeated the earlier success of John Glenn.
Carpenter's second orbit was under manual control, and during it he discovered that he
could make small changes in the capsule's orientation in space by movements of his
head and arms. On descending, his capsule, Aurora 7, overshot the pickup area by 250 mi
(212 km) causing nationwide concern for his safety. A commander in the U.S. navy,
Carpenter had served with an antisubmarine patrol during the Korean War. From 1965 to 1967
he was a member of the navy aquanaut project and in 1969 retired from the navy to go into
private business.
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Carpenter, Mary
Carpenter, Mary, 1807–77, English educator. She devoted her life to the establishment of
schools and institutions and the promotion of educational reforms. In 1835 she organized
the Working and Visiting Society, in 1846 opened a school for poor children, and in 1852
founded a juvenile reformatory (see her Juvenile Delinquents: Their Condition and
Treatment, 1852). Her agitation for reformatory and industrial schools contributed to the
passage of the Juvenile Offenders Act (1857) and furthered the movement for free day
schools. She made four visits to India after 1866, interesting herself in Indian
education, and also lectured in the United States.
See biography by J. E. Carpenter (1879, 2d ed. 1881, repr. 1973).
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Carpentier, Alejo [älA'hO kärpentyAr']
Pronunciation Key
Carpentier, Alejo , 1904–80, Cuban novelist and musicologist. As a political exile in
Paris between 1928 and 1939, Carpentier was strongly influenced by Antonin Artaud, Jacques
Prévert, and the surrealists. Reflecting his deep commitment to revolutionary politics,
his novels explore the irrational elements of the Latin American world, its rich variety
of cultures, and the possibility of its magical transformation. Widely regarded as one of
the greatest modern Latin American writers, Carpentier was also important as a theorist of
the region's literature and historian of its music. Among his works are Ecue-Yamba-O
(1933), The Lost Steps (1953; tr. 1956), The Chase (1956; tr. 1989), The Kingdom of This
World (1949, tr. 1957), The War of Time (1963, tr. 1970), Reasons of State (1974; tr.
1976), and The Harp and the Shadow (1979; tr. 1990).
See studies by M. Adams (1975), F. Janney (1981), D. Shaw (1985), and R. Echevarriá (1977,
rev. ed. 1990).
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http://www.colloquial.com/carp/Personal/
Bob Carpenter, Natural Language Scientist (author & writer, too!)
Bob was born in Detroit on November 2, 1963. Bob spent his early childhood on the West
Side of Detroit until age 10, where he attended Detroit public schools. By the time Bob
moved out, his elementary school (Pitcher Elementary) playground was barbed wired and all
the windows were barred and one of his friends was shot by an even younger kid. In
elementary school, Bob spent all his time reading about science and building model rockets
and planes.
Then Bob moved to the West side 'burb of Livonia, Michigan, where he went to Whitman
Junior High and Franklin High School (how American). In Junior High, Bob spent all of his
time making Super 8mm sci-fi and animated films with Dave Tucker and John Spanich, one of
which was sold to the TV show Kidsworld and can still be caught in re-runs.
In High School, Bob spent his time playing role playing games. He loved math and science,
but found school awfully boring, so he tried to get out of it as much as possible. School
activities worked well, like student government, the tennis team, and various clubs.
Bob went to college at Michigan State University. It's rather difficult for a middle
class kid in the US to afford to go to an expensive private school like CMU -- it now
costs over 100,000 US$ all in, or about 60K more than a state school. At MSU, Bob did math
and computer science, with lots of 20th century philosophy and psychology on the side. The
good part about US universities is their flexible undergrad curricula.
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Mark Carpenter, Christian Poet
http://www.loriswebs.com/endtimepoetry/markc.html
http://3n.net/people/mcarpenter/
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Alfred Patrick Carpenter
b. 29 Oct 1835 in Asford,,CT
d. 18 Sep 1864 Key West,,FL
Alfred P. Carpenter's Letters, 1863
http://www2.smumn.edu/deptpages/~history/civil_war/alfred.htm
Alfred P. Carpenter was born in Connecticut in 1845. He helped his parents and brother on
their farms in St. Charles Township. He had attended Brown University and taught in an
elementary school in Madison, Wisconsin where he lived with his brother. During the Summer
months he returned home to work on the farm. He enlisted in Company K at St. Charles and
was mustered into the 1st Regiment May 23, 1861. He was wounded at Antietam. He was
promoted to the rank of Corporal before the Battle of Gettysburg. Known as
"Carp," he was a close friend of Matthew Marvin. Carpenter's letters reveal
a lively sense of humor as well as a perceptive grasp of his comrades in Company K. His
long narrative letter on the Battle of Gettysburg written a few weeks after the event
(November 30, 1863) is useful to compare with other accounts of the battle.
Carpenter was wounded twice at Gettysburg. After leaving the hospital and recuperating
from his wounds, he accepted a commission as Lieutenant and transferred soon after to
command a company of 2nd U.S. Colored Infantry, stationed at Key West, Florida. He died
there of yellow fever September 18, 1864. His name is inscribed on the monument to the
Colored Troops in Washington D. C.
SEE LETTER on web page!
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