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The Battle of Blackstock's Farm, a military engagement of the American Revolutionary War, took place in what today is Union County, South Carolina, a few miles from Cross Anchor, on November 20, 1780. The battle marked the first time during the war that an American militia had defeated British regulars. [5]
Carnton's Greek Revival style back porch. Carnton is a red brick Federal-style 11-room residence, that was completed in 1826 by Randal McGavock using slave labor.Built on a raised limestone foundation, the southern facing entrance façade is a two-story, five-bay block with a side-facing gabled roof, covered in tin, with two dormer windows, and slightly projecting end chimneys.
Caroline "Carrie" Winder McGavock (née Winder; September 9, 1829 – February 22, 1905) was an American slave owner and the caretaker of the McGavock Confederate Cemetery at Carnton, a historic plantation complex in Franklin, Tennessee. [1] [2] Her life was the subject of a 2005 best-selling novel by Robert Hicks, entitled The Widow of the South.
The State of Tennessee has owned the house since it was purchased to save it from demolition in 1953. As one of the Tennessee Historical Commission's 18 State Historic Sites, the property is administered by the Battle of Franklin Trust, a non-profit organization that also oversees Carnton Plantation.
John McGavock was born on April 2, 1815. [3] His father was Randal McGavock (1766–1843), Mayor of Nashville from 1824 to 1825 and owner of the Carnton Southern plantation in Franklin, Tennessee. [2]
Jones's and Myddleton's claims about Tarleton's losses at Blackstock's are certainly "suspect" according to the definition given by Boatner, who was a retired U.S. Army colonel: but this does not necessarily indicate that they are wrong because Boatner's strictures indicate the typical killed-to-wounded ratio of the period and there are always ...
Chandler's son, John Chandler (1786–1875), inherited Wheatlands in 1819, and under his direction the plantation grew to become one of Sevier County's largest farms, covering 3,700 acres (1,500 ha) by 1850. [3] Chandler's freed slaves inherited part of Wheatlands in 1875, and formed the Chandler Gap community in the hills south of the plantation.
Battle of Johnsonville John W. "Jack" Hinson , nicknamed "Old Jack" (c. 1807 – 28 April 1874) was a farmer in Stewart County, Tennessee , who operated as a Confederate partisan sniper in the Between-the-Rivers region of Tennessee and Kentucky during the American Civil War .