1263 Lincoln Dr, Carbondale, IL 62901, United States
Carter received a bachelor's degree followed by a master's degree at Southern Illinois University.
Notre Dame, IN 46556, United States
Arthur Carter studied at the University of Notre Dame.
75 B. S. Hood Road, Mississippi State, MS 39762, United States
Arthur Carter as a graduate student attended Mississippi State University.
1263 Lincoln Dr, Carbondale, IL 62901, United States
Carter received a bachelor's degree followed by a master's degree at Southern Illinois University.
Notre Dame, IN 46556, United States
Arthur Carter studied at the University of Notre Dame.
75 B. S. Hood Road, Mississippi State, MS 39762, United States
Arthur Carter as a graduate student attended Mississippi State University.
(Arthur B. Carter’s biography of Van Dorn, the first in th...)
Arthur B. Carter’s biography of Van Dorn, the first in three decades, draws on previously unpublished sources regarding the general’s affair with Martha Goodbread - which resulted in three children - and his liaison with Jessica Peters, which resulted in his death. This new material, unknown to previous biographers, includes the revelation that the true circumstances of Van Dorn's death were kept secret by friends and comrades in order to protect his family. Carter reveals that the general was probably mortally wounded on the Peters plantation but was carried back to his Spring Hill headquarters. He reconstructs the details of Van Dorn's murder in a brisk narrative that draws on accounts of Van Dorn's confidantes, capturing both the danger and passion of those events.
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1999
educator military officer writer
Arthur Carter was born in Cairo, Illinois, United States. He was raised in a family where stories of the war conflict were routine stuff since Arthur's six immediate ancestors had served in the Confederate Army. Thus, the Civil War era, both in reading and writing for pleasure, has become Carter's passion for many years.
Carter received a bachelor's degree followed by a master's degree at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. After that, he was a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame and Mississippi State University.
In 1942 Arthur Carter joined the United States Army Infantry as a career officer. The assignments he participated in included the Pacific theater and the Middle East. After 25 years of military service, Carter retired as a captain.
In 1967 he became a military advisor and instructor at a military school in Mobile where worked till the year 1972. After the school, Carter joined Woodward Governor Co. in the role of a technical writer. And, finally, in 1983 Arthur started his freelance writing career.
(Arthur B. Carter’s biography of Van Dorn, the first in th...)
1999Carter is a Conservative Republican.
Quotations:
"I remain intrigued with topics of which little has been known or researched. Often it is as if one was working a jigsaw puzzle; what might be a bothersome task to many individuals becomes to me an adventure."
"I have always been intrigued with the actual research, probably more than with writing itself. This I owe primarily to the chairman of the Department of History at Southern Illinois University. He required that all students majoring in history complete courses in research and thesis writing. What I had originally thought of as dull and boring was found to be far different. In many ways, with new and original material, a chosen topic may be discovered as only having its surface skimmed, with new and original material hidden from previous writers of the same subject."
On November 26, 1959 Arthur Carter married Susan Plemon. There are two children in their family: David and Patricia Ann.
