Giles 'of Mobile' Carter

Notes:

Thirty-Ninth Alabama Infantry Regiment

This regiment was organized at Opelika in May 1862, and proceeded at once to Mississippi. It was there brigaded under Gen. Frank Gardner, with the Nineteenth, Twenty-second, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-sixth Alabama regiments. It participated in the weary march into Kentucky, and came back with the army to Murfreesboro. The regiment took part in that battle, and with heavy loss in casualties, having gained much credit for repulsing an attack of the enemy the day before. The regiment was with the army when it fell back to the Chattanooga line, and took part in the battle of the Chicamauga with a very heavy loss of men. At Mission Ridge the loss was light, and the Thirty-ninth, now under Gen. Deas of Mobile as brigade commander, wintered at Dalton. From there to Atlanta the regiment was a conspicuous actor in all the fighting of the army, suffering severely. And when, under Gen. Hood the fate of the Confederacy was risked on the "iron dice of battle," in the trenches of Atlanta, and at Jonesboro, the ranks of the Thirty-ninth were thinned sadly by the casualties of those desperate struggles. It marched with the army into Tennessee, and lost a number of prisoners at Nashville. Emerging from that train of disasters, the regiment rallied to the call of Gen. Johnston in the Carolinas, and took part in the operations there, though reduced to a bare skeleton. It was there consolidated with the Twenty-second and Twenty-sixth-Fiftieth Alabama, but was surrendered a few days later.

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.....6 Giles (of Henry Co AL) Carter b: ~1787
......................+ (1) Alexie King (2) ?? Surena Hair ?? (3) Alice (Allis) Measer {Carter}
........................7 Louisa Carter b: ~1804
..........................+ Needham Rowland b: ~1803 d: ~1875
........................7 Lottie Jane Carter b: 8 Jan 1809 d: 21 Dec 1882
..........................+ Averett McVay
........................7 Anny "Pinkie" Carter b: ~1817 d: 30 Jan 1854
..........................+ Etheldred "Dred" Pittman ( Pitman ) b: ~1804 d: Bef 1880
........................7 John Carter b: ~1827
........................7 Frederick (of Texas) Carter b: ~1834
..........................+ Martha Emily Anderson
........................7 Mary Carter b: ~1837
..........................+ Timothy Neel
........................7 Elizabeth Caroline Carter b: ~1842
..........................+ Gilford Pittman

Name:
Shown as Giles Goodman Carter [no evidence]

Giles married Alice Jones/Messer 1832, Alabama. Alice was born Est 1800, North Carolina; died Bef 1855, Alabama. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name:
Chancery Record of Giles Carter identifies Jane's husband as Averett McVay, once Administrator in 1865.

Frederick married Martha Emily Anderson 7 Jan 1854, Randolph County, Georgia. Martha was born Est 1836, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name:
Caroline Carter is identified as Mrs. N. A. Pittman who is deceased at the time of the settlement of her Father's [Giles] Will; her heirs named George P. Pittman, Henry Co., Alabama.; Jucy J., Wife of Wm. Sheppard, ?Clark County Alabama; Joseph Pittman, Henry Co., Alabama; and Caroline Pittman, minor, County of Henry Alabama; Dassett Pittman, minor, Henry Co. Ala.

Notes:

My GGrandfather TIMOTHY NEEL was born in Ala. in 1834....he wed MARY ELIZABETH CARTER IN 1857-58 era. All their children were born in Eufala, Barbour Co. Ala. Sometime after
1878 they moved down to Hillsborough Co. Fla.
They had six children...
NOAH NEEL, Bn: Dec 1859, Wed,ISABELLA BAKER
BARTON NEEL, Bn: 1862, never married.
MARY VALERIA (Molly) NEEL, Bn: 1867, Wed, BARRY WETHERINGTON
FREDERICK CARTER NEEL, Bn: 1870, Wed, TALLULAH SEMIDOCIA HAGAN
EDGAR GILES NEEL,Bn: 1878, Wed, MARY PEARL WILLIS.Bn: in Texas
LULA MAE NEEL, Bn: 1878, Wed MACK TERRELL.

GGrand Dad Timothy raised all his family in Fla. He served in the Civil War while living in Ala. I have some of his War record... The Alabama Census listed Timothy's father
as ELIJAH NEEL. hope someone has info. to share!!! Thanx for reading this.
Peggy Perry/Davis

NOTE: She was named Mary Magdalene for her mother. No evidence has been located to prove Elizabeth was her name.

Mary married Timothy H. Neel/Neal/Neil 29 Jan 1856, Henry County, Alabama. Timothy was born 15 Oct 1833, Henry, Alabama; died 24 Jun 1903, Tampa, Florida; was buried , Jackson Heights Cemetery, Tampa, Florida. [Group Sheet]