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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16QP_carnton-plantation_Franklin-TN.html
Carnton was built ca. 1815 by Randal McGavock (1768-1843), planter, political leader and mayor of Nashville. Named after the McGavock home in Northern Ireland, the house was greatly enlarged by Randal ca.1826. His son, John, later added the Greek …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16QN_confederate-cemetery_Franklin-TN.html
Following the Battle of Franklin, Nov 30, 1864, John McGovock, owner of "Carnton," collected and buried here the bodies of 1496 Confederates. The five general officers killed there were interred elsewhere after being brought to the house. Other Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16CB_lotz-house_Franklin-TN.html
(Preface): In September 1864, after Union Gen. William T. Sherman defeated Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood at Atlanta, Hood let the Army of Tennessee northwest against Sherman's supply lines. Rather than contest Sherman's "March to the Sea," Hood …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16C8_lotz-house_Franklin-TN.html
In 1858, the Lotz House was built on property purchased from Fountain B. Carter by German immigrant Albert Lotz, a master carpenter and piano maker. On November 30, 1864, before the Battle of Franklin, the Lotz family sought refuge across the stre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16C5_carter-gin-house_Franklin-TN.html
The Carter cotton gin house, the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of the Battle of Franklin, was located about 80 yards east of Columbia Pike. General Adams, Cleburne and Granbury were killed near here. The gin house, a weatherboarded, fram…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16C4_the-cotton-gin-assault_Franklin-TN.html
Into this area rushed elements of four Confederated division on November 30, 1864 as they assaulted the Federal lines near the Carter cotton gin. Crossed largely by troops from Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne's Division, the area was flooded by men fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16C3_battle-ground-academy_Franklin-TN.html
Founded in 1889 as Battle Ground Academy, named for its location where the Battle of Franklin occurred in 1864, and dedicated in an address by Confederate General William B. Bate, later governor and U.S. Senator, this boys' preparatory school was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16C2_federal-forward-lines_Franklin-TN.html
On November 30, 1864, Col. Joseph Conrad's and Col. John Lane's brigades of Brig. Gen. George D. Wagner's Federal Second Division, Fourth Corps, were placed east and west of the road near this position one half mile south of the Federal main line.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16C1_epicenter-of-the-battle-of-franklin_Franklin-TN.html
(Preface): In September 1864, after Union Gen. William T. Sherman defeated Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood at Atlanta, Hood led the Army of Tennessee northeast against Sherman's supply lines. Rather than contest Sherman's "March to the Sea," Hood …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16C0_winstead-hill_Franklin-TN.html
(Preface): In September 1864, after Union Gen. William T. Sherman defeated Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood at Atlant, Hood let the Army of Tennessee northwest against Sherman's supply lines. Rather than contest Sherman's "March to the Sea," Hood m…