Daisy Carter Cook
(1908-2005)

On the day that my father and I visited Aunt Daise, she could still remember her grandfather William Anderson Carter (1836-1917). She recalled that he always walked with two canes, resulting from an injury he suffered from jumping from a apparently moving train during the Civil War. The injury led to his discharge from the CSA Army on April 4, 1863 by reason of "atrophy of the muscles of the right leg caused by an injury of the knee joint." (North Carolina pension records indicate he was wounded near Yorktown, and West Point, Virginia, on unspecified dates.)