Carnton Mansion

Tennessee · USA · Manor

Borgerkrigens største feltsykehus i 1864 — fire døde generaler ble lagt ut på baksideverandaen.

Carnton is a historic plantation built in 1826 in Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee. The property originally covered 1,420 hectares and played an important role during and immediately after the Battle of Franklin in the American Civil War.

On 30 November 1864, Carnton became the largest temporary field hospital caring for the wounded and dying after the Battle of Franklin. More than 1,750 Confederate soldiers lost their lives at Franklin, and on Carnton's back porch the bodies of four dead Confederate generals were laid out for several hours after the battle.

Randal McGavock (1768–1843) migrated from Virginia and settled in Nashville, Tennessee, becoming a prominent local politician. He served as mayor of Nashville for a year in 1824 and was acquainted with Presidents James K. Polk and Andrew Jackson.

After the war, John and Carrie McGavock donated 0.8 hectares of their property as a site for the fallen Confederates to be reinterred. The citizens of Franklin raised the funds, and the soldiers were exhumed and laid to rest in the McGavock Confederate Cemetery — the largest privately owned Confederate cemetery in the United States.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and is today a museum managed by The Battle of Franklin Trust. Staff and visitors have over the years reported soldiers' voices, unexplained bloodstains that reappear on the wooden floor, and the figure of a woman — probably Carrie McGavock — still said to walk from room to room.

Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnton

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Carnton Mansion ligger i Tennessee, USA.

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