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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YC5_a-dream-postponed_Franklin-TN.html
To assist the newly freed with court cases, education, and housing, Congress formed the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865. An additional goal of the Bureau was to help create labor contracts between white landowners and the formerly enslaved. In October 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YC4_confederate-reunions-at-mcgavocks-grove_Franklin-TN.html
Years after the Civil War ended, veterans slowly began to form reunions. Among the most common gathering sites were cemeteries, where survivors paid homage to their fallen comrades. The McGavock Confederate Cemetery was one such meeting place.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YB8_battle-of-franklin-eastern-flank_Franklin-TN.html
Today's Carnton presents a quiet pastoral setting, but before the Civil War, John and Carrie McGavock's farm would have looked more like a bustling agricultural factory.
Their plantation encompassed 700 acres, more than three times the amount…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YB7_battle-of-franklin-eastern-flank_Franklin-TN.html
Confederate Gen. Willaim Loring's division marched across the McGavock plantation during the battle. Anticipating heavy casualties, his officers chose Carnton for a hospital.
The main house was a sound choice. Less than a mile (.6 km) from th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YAI_the-final-campaign-1864_Franklin-TN.html
In late 1864, the last major campaign of the Civil War swept into Middle Tennessee. The Confederate Army of Tennessee commanded by Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood, moved out of Georgia after the fall of Atlanta, marched across Alabama, and pushed north to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YAH_the-battle-of-franklin_Franklin-TN.html
Soon after passing this point, the Southern assault came within range of Federal artillery. Just west of here, an advanced line of 3,000 Union troops began to fall back, and the Confederates pursued them into the main Union line. In moments, the b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YAG_hoods-retreat_Franklin-TN.html
Following the Battle of Franklin, the Union army dashed north into their supply base of Nashville and its vast network of fortifications where Gen. George H. Thomas had assembled a sizeable force. In pursuit came Gen. John Bell Hood's battered Con…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y94_standing-at-the-crossroads-1861_Franklin-TN.html
Pre-war Middle Tennessee thrived. Residents free and enslaved grew copious amounts of corn, wheat, timber, cattle, and horses, and no area of the South produced more mules and hog. Toads, rails, and telegraph wires webbed across the center of the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y93_becoming-the-front-line-1862_Franklin-TN.html
"Throughout 1862 first one army would be encamped in town, then the Federals. Raids were frequent, then we would run down in our cellar to get out of the range of the bullets. Sometimes we would spend a whole night there. The quiet would go on for…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y92_a-crucial-war-zone-1863_Franklin-TN.html
For the Union, 1863 brought the Emancipation Proclamation, victory at Gettysburg, and the capturing of the Mississippi River. Federal forces continued their drive toward Atlanta in hopes of ending the war altogether. But on March 5th, seven miles …