Named Entity Results, James M. Carter

Gen. Morgan. --We are gratified to see that the Government has at last done justice to this gallant soldier. He has been turned loose, it is said, with instructions to report to no one but Gen. Johnston. We have the first fruits of the movement in the following dispatch from Morgan himself, dated Monticello, Ky., May 12th, 8 A. M.: "I have met the enemy, 10,000 strong — the cavalry under Woolford, the infantry under Gen. Carter--and have repulsed them, with heavy loss. They retreated across the Cumberland, leaving their baggage, camp equipage, etc., in my hands. They lost 300 drowned while crossing the river. I am on the field burying dead Yankees. My loss is light, considering two days engagement."

Accidentally shot. --One of the guards on duty at Castle Thunder, named James M. Carter, belonging to Company A, Capt. John H. Greanor, City Battalion, was accidentally shot yesterday evening, under the following circumstances: Private Carter, with two companions, were asleep in the barrack room at the rear of the Castle; whePrivate Carter, with two companions, were asleep in the barrack room at the rear of the Castle; when a comrade in a lower room attempted to remove a musket from a stack. In doing so the trigger caught against something and fell with sufficient force to explode the load. The ball passed through the ceiling and flooring above and into the bank in which Carter was lying asleep, through the fleshy part of his leg, above the knee,st something and fell with sufficient force to explode the load. The ball passed through the ceiling and flooring above and into the bank in which Carter was lying asleep, through the fleshy part of his leg, above the knee, and lodged in the flooring of the third story. The wounded man was taken to the hospital on 20th street.