Rear Admira Samuel P Carter By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ONSULT Mr. Webster's large book of words and their definitions and there vou will find one char acterized thus: “Unique, a. Being without a like or equal; single in Kind or excellence ; De- spite this explicit defi nition, “unique” 18 a " much-misnsed word. Consider now the careers of three Americans and see whetliér or not the characterization of “unique” applied to them, One of them was the only man who ever held the rank of rear admiral in the United States navy and the rank of brigadier general In the United States army. Another was a man who, although not a native of America, held a position in the high- est legislative body of one American government and then held successively three important offices in the execu- tive department of another American government. Even more remarkable is the record of the third—not a na- tive of America, he held several im- portant state offices In two states, was elected United States senator from three different states, commanded American troops In two wars and was governor of an American territory. Tennessee gave to the nation (ts only admiral-general. Samuel Pow. hatan Carter was his name and he was born in Elizabethtown, Carter county, August 6 1810. He became a midshipman in the navy in 1840. Six years later he was promoted to the grade of passed midshipman and as- signed to the U. 8 8, Ohio. From 1851 to 1853 he was assistant instructor of infantry tactics at the naval academy and was made a lieu tenant in 1855. The next year he served in one of Uncle Sam's forgotten wars, the expedition to China. On July 11, 1861, Carter was temporarily trans ferred to the War department for the special duty of organiiing troops in his native land, eastern Tennessee, Carter soon proved to be as able a military as he had heen a naval officer. He was appointed first colonel of the Second Tennessee volunteers, then act- ing brigadier general of and on May 1, 1862, he full commission as brigade. As a cavalry leader Carter distin. guished himself particularly. On Au- gust 28, 1863, he defeated that match less Confederate horseman, Gen. John H. Morgan, and the next day repeated his success against General Smith, He was present at the siege of Kno%- ville In December of that year and la- ter commanded a division under Gen, John Schofield in the North Carolina campaign of 1865. On March 13, 1865, Carter was brevetted major general, and was mustered out of the army in January, 1566, He immediately returned to the navy, having by this time been pro moted to the rank of commander. He served as commandant at the naval academy from 1860 to 1872, having been promoted to the rank of captain in 1870. He was a member of the lighthouse board from 1876 to 1880, and was promoted to commodore In 1878. In 1881 he was honored by pro- motion to the rank of rear admiral on the retired list, this reward com- ing as a fitting climax to his extraor- dinary career In both branches of the United States service, In 1801 “Admiral-General” Carter, truly a unique American, dled in the Capital of the country he had served =o well during his lifetime of seventy-one years, In the year 1811 a ship attempted to ascend the Mississippl river to New Orlefing, but finding that port block- nded by a British fleet it sailed away to the West Indies. Among its pas. sengers, who landed on the island of St. Croix, was an English Jew, named Benjamin, and his wife. On August 11 a son was born to Mrs. Benjamin and given the name of Judah. AL though Judah FP, Benjamin was de. nied the right of being born on Amer. fean soil, he was destined to become an important figure in American his tory. Benjamin's boyhood was spent In N. C, until 1825, when sole.” is aptly volunteers, received his commander of a Be | Photographs of Carter and Shields, courtesy Army Information Service. he entered Yale. After three years he left that institution without getting a degree and went to New Ocleans, where he studied jaw In a notary's office. He was admitted to the bar in 1832 and spent the next few years practicing that profession with a short interim of school teaching. Politics was next to engage his at- tention and he allied himself to thé Whig party. In 1845 he was a mem ber of the convention which met to revise the of Louisiana, and it Is noteworthy that this foreign born citizen of Louisiana was respon for placing in the new code a that the that must be a cliizen born in the United States. In 1848 Louisiana Benla iin as presidential elector at large, constitution sible provision governor of state elected and four years later sent him to the United States senate, returning him there in 1857. He took a prominent part in the slavery dispute of those times, and daring one of the exciting debates in the senale a dispute with Jefferson Davis, the senator from Mis sigsippi, brought the two men to the verge of a duel which was averted only when Davis apologized. Although Davis had disagreed lently with Benjamin in the senate he recognized the worth of the man, and when the former was chosen as Pres. ident of the Confederate States of America he selected Benjamin as at- torney general in his cabinet. In Au- gust, 1861, ‘Benjamin was transferred to the War department, where his con- duct of the war aroused such bitter hostility, even including charges of in- competency and neglect of his duty. that he resigned. Bet Davis, to whose stubborn refusal to accept advice some historians ascribe a large share of the responsibility for the downfall of the Confederacy, again flew in the face of public opinion, anll immediate. ly offered Benjamin his third cabinet position, that of secretary of state, When Richmond fell in 1865, Ben Jamin fled with the rest of the Con federate government, Making his way to the coast of Florida he escaped In an open boat td the Bahamas, and In September, 1865, reached Liverpool, After living quietly in retirement for a year in England he took up the study of English law, and In 1866 he was admitted to the bar. In 1883, after his health had failed, Benjamin retired from active practice, and on June 30 of that year he was guest of honor at a farewell banquet given to him in the Inner temple In London Ly the highest legal luminaries in England. He then went to Paris to make his home and there he died on May 8, 1884, If Benjamin's career In America was a remarkable one, even more unusual was that of another immigrant boy, James E. Shields, Born in Dungan- non, County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1810, Shields came to this country at the nge of sixteen and went to the frontier country of Illinols, where he studied law and began practice at Kaskaskia in 1832. Honors cpme rapidly to him In his adopted home, He was elected to the legislature In 1836, made state auditor In 1830 and appointed r judge on the State Supreme court bench in 1848, Two years later he was appoint. vio. 3 so 1 er JNICICS the civil ed commissioner of office, but gave up outbreak of the Mexican cept aw Iss’on as eral of the llinols general land life at wir fo ac coms brigadier sen Rn seers ed Taylor on the under General Wood In volunteers In During conflict Khields under Grande, that General huahua and during weneral campaign He was shot tl lung st the Battle of Cerro Gordo and brevetted major general. After his re 1 in the Valley of Mex ico as commander of York and mnteers, only to be wounded severe storming of Chapul covery he ser a brigade of mu rines, New South Carolina again at the Mustered out of the servi 20, 1848, he 1 immediately svnor of Oregon but resigned thi elected senator from ocrat. He in the December 3, 1540, to March 3, and then moved to Minnesots served senate When the state government was or ganized there he was sent the United States senate where hie re mained from May 12, 185K, to March 3, 1850. He next moved to California and at the outbreak of the Civil war was acting as superintendent of au mine in Mexico. Hastening to Wash ington, the Mexican war veteran was commissioned a brigadier genernl of volunteers in August, 1861, and the death of Gen. Fred W. Lander, Shields was placed at the head of his brigade. In 1862 he was division of Gen. N. FP. Banks army, then operating in the Shenandoah val ley of Virginia and opened the cam- paign by inflicting a stinging defeat at Winchester upon “Stonewall” Jack son, who was just make his bid for fame as the remark able leader of “foot eavalry.” Shield was wounded in this battle, receiving a broken arm from a fragment of shell On March 28, 1863, weakened by the wounds which he had suffered in tw wars, Shields resigned from the army Going to California he found that the lands granted to him for his militars services had been lost by his trusted agent and he bought a farm near Car roliton, Mo., upon which to spend his declining years. Although he had de cided to retire from public life, he was soon back into politics. In 1808 he wns Derhocratie candidate for con gress, and although his friends de- clured that he had been elected. he was not seated. Six years later they elected him to the legislature, and up- on the expiration of his term, the gen. eral, aged, weakened and impoverished, sought the humble position of door keeper of the United States senate in which he had represented two sintes. But this was denied him and he re. turned to Missourl, That state prompt- Iy honored him by electing him to the senate and he returned again as a member of the body which had de nied him employment. He held this position until his death, which took place on June 1, 1870, at Ottumwa, Town, where he had gone to deliver a lecture on the Mexican war for the benefit of a church. 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