Carlton McCarthy

Prior to this, he served as a soldier in the Confederate Army. He fought in local armies but was not formally enlisted private until 1864 in the Richmond Howitzers of the Army of Northern Virginia. He wrote a book about his four years of Civil War experience called Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia 1861-1865., first published by Carlton McCarthy and Company in 1882 with a second edition published in 1888. ==Biographies==

Mary Holt Carlton wrote a book about Carlton in 1986, called ''Richmond's `Live Wire' Mayor 1904-1908''. McCarthy died in 1936 at the age of 89. ==Civic contributions==

Besides being Richmond's elected mayor from 1904 to 1908, McCarthy also made other contributions to Richmond life, such as being the primary author of a 1914 ordinance to adopt a Richmond flag. In 1894, McCarthy was the orator at the unveiling of Richmond's Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument. ==References==