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Admiral Carter, Union Hero Who Joined Armies and Navies
Samuel P Carter, born 1819 in Elizabethtown Tennessee, was unique as both brigadier general in the Union Army and rear admiral in the U S Navy. He led cavalry raids in East Tennessee, commanded gunboat Monocacy on the Asiatic station, and retired in 1881 after a storied cross service career dying in 1891 in Washington D C. He fought Morgan Pegram Bragg and Schofield’s left wing at Kingston and Knoxville.
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Ifty
Washington, D. C
America
Samuel Powhatan Carter
United States Army
United States Navy
Elizabethtown
Tenn
Carter
Princeton University
Navy
Mexico
U. S. S. Ohio
Vera Cruz
United States Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Asiatic
War Department
East Tennessee
Second
Tennessee Volunteers
Old Horse
Kentucky
Nessee
North Carolina
Tennessee
Army
Naval
South
John H. Morgan
Morgan
West's
Pegram
Knoxville
Schofield
Kingston
N. C
Bragg