Daily Evening Express
Lancaster Pa.
July 30 1863
Death of a Rebel Colonel : Col. Benj. F. Carter of the 4th Texas Regiment, died in Chambersburg on the
21st last, from wounds received at the battle of Gettysburg. He was a Native of Tennessee, and emigrated to
Texas in 1853, where he practised law and rose to some distinction in his profession. In July , 1861
influenced by the mad sprit of succession, he abandoned his wife and family, raised a company of Infantry, and
entered the rebel service. Since then he has, we learn, won the esteem of his rebel commander for his
bravery, and rose to the command of his regiment. His regiment was terribly cut up at the Second Bull Run
fight ; again at Antietam, and almost destroyed at Gettysburg, where he fell mortally wounded. Col. Carter, is
now, we believe, supported at home for the office of District Judge, and would doubtless have been promoted
to the star of Brigadier, had he survived. Since he entered the service against his country, Death has been busy
with his loved ones at home, upon whom he had, by his position and influence, done much to bring the
incalculable evils of civil war. his wife and two children died while he was at war with the government that
had nurtured him from his birth, and a little daughter only remains to mourn the just but hard fate of a father
fallen in such a cause, and finding a hospitable grave among the people he sought to destroy. During his
illness he heard of the surrender of Vicksburg, and he frankly declared that it sealed the fate of the Rebellion.
He said that the Mississippi open to the trade of the loyal Northwest, and Texas and Arkansas isolated from
the so-called Confederacy, its destruction was only a question of time-the fatal day must surely come. Thus
despairing of his bad cause, he died a stranger in the land he would have desolated, and his remains now lie in
the old Methodist burying-ground, Chambersburg, to await the call from him who shall judge all man in the
Great Day