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The McGavock Confederate Cemetery is located in Franklin, Tennessee. It was established in June 1866 as a private cemetery on land donated by the McGavock planter family. The nearly 1,500 Confederate soldiers buried there were casualties of the Battle of Franklin that took place November 30, 1864. They were first buried at the battleground, but ...
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.
National Park Service map showing Civil War Sites in Tennessee; The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 (extensive site) Bibliography of Tennessee Civil War Unit Histories at the Tennessee State Library and Archives; The McGavock Confederate Cemetery at Franklin
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.
Adjacent to Carnton is the McGavock Confederate Cemetery, where 1,481 Southern soldiers killed in the battle are buried. Adjacent to the 48 acres (190,000 m 2 ) surrounding Carnton is another 110 acres (0.45 km 2 ) of battlefield, which is currently being converted to a city park.
'Sacred': Cherokee name in, Confederate general out for Tennessee's highest mountain John Bacon and Tyler Whetstone, USA TODAY Updated September 20, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Randal William McGavock was born on August 10, 1826, in Nashville, Tennessee. [1] [3] [5] He was a fourth-generation Irish-American. [3]His paternal grandfather's brother was Randal McGavock (1766–1843), who served as Mayor of Nashville from 1824 to 1825 and owned the Carnton plantation. [3]
According to the cemetery’s website, Confederate remains weren’t allowed to be buried at Arlington until 1900, 35 years after the Civil War ended. “By 1902, 262 Confederate bodies were ...