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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 ...
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.
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.
American Civil War portal; This category is for permanent military cemeteries established for Confederate soldiers and sailors who died during campaigns or operations.A common difference between cemeteries of war graves and those of civilian peacetime graves is the uniformity of those interred.
Carrie Winder McGavock (1829-1905), caretaker of the McGavock Confederate Cemetery in Franklin, Tennessee. Her father, Van Perkins Winder, gave her one slave at marriage, Mariah Reddick, [209] [210] and four more a few years later. [211] John McGavock (1815–1893), Louisiana plantation owner and private secretary to Attorney General Felix Grundy.
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 ...
A federal judge on Tuesday allowed the Arlington National Cemetery to remove a century-old Confederate memorial one day after blocking the removal over a report that gravesites were disturbed. At ...
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