Scores of people came out to the McGavock Confederate Cemetery at the Carnton plantation in Franklin, Tennessee, Sunday June 1st at 2 p.m., to commemorate the service and sacrifice that some 1,500 Confederate soldiers made on November 30, 1864, during the Battle of Franklin. This is an annual event hosted by The Daughters of the [...]
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Annual memorial service for Confederate dead brings outs scores of people
Posted in Uncategorized on June 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Williams brothers, 40th MS, die in each other’s arms
Posted in Uncategorized on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Willilam’s Brothers of Co. C. 40th Mississippi. Lt. Joseph Green English Williams, age 24, and brother Lt. Enoch Henderson Williams, age 27.
According to a historian, one of the Williams brothers was mortally wounded in the belly and lay dying on the Franklin battlefield. He crawled over to his brother who also lay dying [...]
George Estes, Co A, 14th MS writes about the expected battle
Posted in Uncategorized on September 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The 14th MS was part of Adams’s Brigade, Loring’s Division
“Our division was in the right of the Pike and on the top of a high ridge from where we could see all the movements of the enemy. The blue coats were busy fixing for us. We could see them by the thousands, shoveling dirt, cutting [...]
50th Ohio soldier writes of Franklin battle, mentions dead and wounded.
Posted in Uncategorized on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Columbia Tenn
Dec 28th 1864
Dear Sister,
I received a long letter from you today. I reply not because there is anything of importance transpiring just at present, but because when the most happens is the time I am entirely unable to write. Since I was last at Columbia we have had some stirring times. Hood drove us [...]
The McGavock Cemetery Book
Posted in Uncategorized on September 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
George Cuppett, who led the re-burial project from April to June 1866, recorded the names and identities of about 1,500 Confederate dead. He kept them the book pictured below. The book was passed on to the care of Carrie McGavock, which she kept diligently.
Here the book is opened to the Mississippi section of boys [...]
Burial of the soldiers right after the battle
Posted in Uncategorized on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Most of the Confederate (and Union dead) were buried “near and along the length of the Federal breastworks, which spanned the Southern edge of what was then Franklin,” according to Jacobson; The NcGavock Confederate Cemetery, p. 21. Union dead were placed by twos in shallow grave in long rows by their comrades without marking the [...]
Condition of Confederate graves at Franklin in Spring 1866?
Posted in Uncategorized on August 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
By the time the Spring of 1866 arrived the condition of the graves and markers of the fallen Franklin Confederate were in bad condition. Many of the wooden markers were beginning to be hard to read and some had been used as firewood unfortunately. The identities, names and stories of these brave men were in [...]
Carnton becomes Civil War field-hospital after battle
Posted in Uncategorized on August 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Col. John and Carrie McGavock home – Carnton – was situated less than one mile from the epicenter of the action that took place on the Union Eastern flank at Franklin. Because of close proximity geographically, and the compassion of Carrie McGavock, hundreds of Confederate soldiers were tended and cared for immediately after the [...]
William Candace Thompson, 6th MS, writes of the action . . .
Posted in Uncategorized on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The 6th MS was part of Adams’s Brigade, which has 43 known dead buried at McGavock. The 6th MS has 3 known buried dead at McGavock.
“During the movement of this division the Federals had a battery planted on the right of Harpeth River that we could not reach, dealt great destruction to our forces, using [...]
Gen Featherston’s Mississippi boys (Loring’s Division) faced horrible artillery fire
Posted in Uncategorized on August 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Featherston’s C.S.A. Brigade has 68 boys known buried at McGavock Cemetery
“Near the Harpeth River, Major General William Loring’s troops could begin to see the looming Federal line protecting Reilly’s division. Buford’s dismounted troopers and Brigadier General Winfield Featherston’s Mississippians advanced between the river and the Lewisburg Pike, their line bisected by the Central Alabama Railroad. [...]
