William B. Carter
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william-b-carter-175-7798598
title:
William B. Carter
text:
Rev. William Blount Carter was a farmer, an American Presbyterian minister, and the mastermind of the East Tennessee Bridge Burnings, a guerrilla-warfare action of the American Civil War. Per one history, "Whatever else may be said about the burning of the bridges of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad in November, 1861, there can be no doubt whatever that the plan was conceived by the Rev. William B. Carter, of Elizabethton, Tenn., and it was through his influence that Mr. Lincoln and the
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Presbyterian guerrilla (1820–1902)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Carter
date created:
2007-06-11T23:14:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T04:32:31Z
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