Editing John Carter of Mars (section)

==Description==
Carter stands {{convert|6|ft|2|in|m}} and has close-cropped black hair and steel-grey eyes. Burroughs describes him as immortal. In the opening pages of ''A Princess of Mars'', it is revealed that Carter can remember no childhood, having always been a man of about thirty years old. Many generations have known him as "Uncle Jack," but he always lived to see them grow old and die, while he remained young.

His character and courtesy exemplify the ideals of the [[Antebellum South]]. A [[Virginia]]n, he served as a captain in the [[American Civil War]] on the side of the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]]. After the war, Carter and his companion Powell, who was also a captain in the Civil War, became gold prospectors. Carter and Powell struck it rich by finding gold in [[Arizona]]. While hiding from [[Apache]]s in a cave, he appears to die; leaving his inanimate body behind, he is mysteriously transported by a form of [[astral projection]] to the planet Mars, where he finds himself re-embodied in a form identical to his earthly one. Accustomed to the greater [[gravity]] of Earth, he finds himself to be much stronger and more agile than the natives of Mars.