Augusta County: "The Last Roll: Capt. Henry Clay Carter; Charles James Faulkner [separate obituaries]," by Charles James Faulkner, 1929
Summary: Two obituaries of Virginian Confederate veterans, praising their service and celebrating their lives
Capt. Henry Clay Carter.
From resolutions passed by Stonewall Jackson Camp, U. C. V., of Staunton, Va., in honor of Commander Henry Clay Carter, the following is taken:
Commander Henry C. Carter answered to the Divine call on Sunday, February 24, in his eighty-fifth year. His illness was brief, and he had been blessed throughout his long and useful life with excellent health, vigor of mind and body.
In June, 1862, at the age of eighteen, Henry Carter enlisted for the Confederacy, joining Imboden's Partisan Rangers, afterwards known as McClanahan's Battery, and served with honor throughout the war to the surrender at Appomattox. He participated with his command in the major engagements at Port Republic, Piedmont, White Post, New Market, Fisher's Hill, Williamsport, Gettysburg, and many less important engagements. His devotion to the cause of the Confederacy was constantly manifested by undaunted courage, fidelity, love, and loyalty. He cherished the memories of war days, and his greatest pleasure in late years was in service to his comrades and in active, helpful participation in every movement looking to their comfort and honor. He cherished the memories of the war days, and his greatest pleasure in late years was in service to his comrades and in active, helpful participation in every movement looking to their comfort and honor. He cherished the memories of the war, the sacred sacrifices of its turbulent days, the heroes it developed, the undying comradeship created. He was faithful and constant in his attendance upon this Camp, upon every memorial occasion of the community, and attended every reunion possible of his comrades, both State and general, having been at Little Rock in 1928.
Stonewall Jackson Camp delighted to honor Commander Carter in life, and in his death pay tribute to his memory.
Committee: J. L. Dunlap, J. N. Britton. J. R. Mohler, Lieutenant Commander; J. Wellington Spitler, Adjutant.
Charles James Faulkner.
In the same room of the historic old home, Boydsville, in Martinsburg, Va., where he was born on September 21, 1847, death came to Charles James Faulkner, Virginia gentleman, scholar, and former United States Senator, on January 13, 1929. He died in his eighty-second year.
When the father of Charles Faulkner was appointed Minister to France, the son accompanied him to Europe, attending schools in Paris and Switzerland until their return to America in 1861, when, in his fifteenth year, Charles Faulkner entered as a student the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington. During the desperate fighting in 1864, the battalion of cadets was rushed into action and rendered heroic service in the battle of New Market. After that there was no more schooling for these boys, and from that time to the end, young Faulkner was in active service, as an aide on the staff of Gen. John C. Breckinridge, and later on the staff of Gen. Henry A. Wise, with whom he surrendered.
Returning home, he studied under the direction of his father until 1866, when he entered the law department of the University of Virginia, from which he was graduated in June, 1868, and admitted to the bar a few months later, being then twenty-one years old. In 1887, his reputation established as one of the ablest jurists of the country and a leading citizen, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, and there served twelve years with distinction, serving on many important committees. Many honors came to him in the different activities of his life, both at home and abroad, and he was loved and honored by those in all walks of life. He is survived by two sons and two daughters.
Bibliographic Information: Source copy consulted: Confederate Veteran, Vol. 37, p. 144, 1929
