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The most amazing thing isn't the battle scars. It's that the damage has remained intact, without replacements or repairs, for over a century and a half!

When you walked into the building with all of the bullet holes that had daylight shining through, it looked like a trip to a planetarium. Outstanding video. Thanks so much for sharing.

It's amazing that someone had the foresight to preserve the history. You'd think the family would have repaired the house after the battle.

The farmhouse office blew me away ....I can almost envision the battle and the noise...in a sense it's haunting!

Man.. this channel is a gold mine, brother. I love how you tell stories non biased. A lot of folks tend to look at people of the past with their modern day lenses.. they try to project modern ethics on these folks that lived more than a century and a half ago. It's crazy. Thanks for showing respect to all involved and keeping their memories alive! Cheers man, and subscribed!

And a huge thank you to the people that work so hard to preserve these places. Can you imagine keeping the weather from destroying the homes further.

When I go to a museum or anyplace where you’re not supposed to touch things I have to keep my hands clasped behind my back or I will touch something! The struggle is real!😂

My grandfather's great uncle was killed at the Battle of Franklin. And I have the book " the widow of the South" which is about the lady who owned the land where the battle was fought and they used her house as a hospital for the casualties of the battle. It's a good read. The story about the Carter house is in the book also.

Thank you for this beautiful video about the Carter house, and a big thank you to all the individuals who have worked so hard to preserve this site. On a personal note, my great, great, great grandfather died at the battle of Franklin. He was on the Union side. He was a private with the 64 regiments from Ohio and is listed among the union dead that died on Nov 30, 1864. Therefore, this last video of your trilogy about the battle of Franklin holds a special meaning to me. Thank you for taking on the task of bringing American history to people across the United States and the world, your videos are such a delight to see here on KZfaq.

This is definitely one of the best historical videos I’ve seen yet. It’s so amazing that this stuff hasn’t been replaced or repaired in over 100 years and we get to see it. Keep up with the awesome videos!

Amazing, unbelievable that this still stands today. It’s so grand that the state of Franklin, Tennessee cared enough to preserve this historic place. I was just in awww at seeing all the bullet holes n when you open that door I really gasped at the amazement of those holes. Thank God everyone was in the cellar. I loved this video. You have showed us so much great history better than the history channel. Once again JD a big thank you. ♥️♥️😊👍👍👍

I love the way he says, "Gahh-lee" - when he sees something cool or interesting (it's something we say in the south ALL the time). 🤭♥️

Thank you so much for taking us history buffs on a trip to witness what we would never get to see in real life. We very much appreciate your travels and videos and explanations .

Thanks for sharing this with us. I’m so glad that people have the presence of mind to preserve sites like this. Even if you’re not interested in war stuff, this is actual history you can see and touch. It’s important American history.. Thanks again and all the best from Ireland 👍

Every inch of the house and outer buildings along with every bullet hole was absolutely breathtaking! Thank you so much for the tour. I'm not able to travel to these historic places and being able to watch these type of videos let's me live vicariously through you. Much love to you and your whole team!!

Love this! I did the walking tour of the Franklin battle a few years ago. The guide was extremely knowledgeable. Really got into the emotion of the soldiers and brought it to life. So humbling. Great experience.

You definitely do an awesome job sharing these bits of history! Thank you for your time and labor in making these stories available to us all!

I absolutely love the old bedspreads, all of the furniture as a matter of fact.. I cannot imagine what the family must have felt at that time... Thank you again for another great piece of history...

I just took a tour at the Carter House with the guide Mike who was perhaps one of the most knowledgeable tour guides I have ever had for any historical tour. The Carter House is truly a gem of American history that should be experienced by anyone able to do so.

This was absolutely amazing!! I’ve not seen anything like this concerning the Civil War, it definitely speaks to you how it really was!! You can almost hear powder going off and the lead hitting and feel the fear!!

That is absolutely amazing that they were able to preserve it and leaving the holes for us to actually visualize what it was like

come to va i bet u can find battlefields like that and even more interesting. i visited sailors creek and it was very interesting it was the battle before general lee surrendered at appomatox courthouse. theres a house there called the lockett house and it is full of bullet holes as well but what makes it so interesting is that the house is still occupied by the locketts today. at least 12 generations have lived on the plantation. mr lockett was a very nice old fella and very welcoming. he seemed very proud to show off his home and civil war artifacts.

The bullet hole in the bed reminds me of my great uncle Don, who served under Patton, and he woke up to gunfire in WWII. He heard a bullet whiz by his head and later after fighting came back to his wooden bed and found a bullet logged in the bedpost about 3 inches from where his head would have been. He kept that bullet in a box and unfortunately his partner, Bill's, family stole it and kept it for themselves along with all of the other memorabilia he had saved. The two had been together since they were 21 until 80 years old so we didn't see it coming and were heartbroken. Awesome job and a new total history nerd subscriber here!

I have never seen someone that I would be more comfortable as to saying you would be such a wonderful history teacher. Everything you share on this channel I am super impressed with the information and presentation of it all. Awesome job and it's a joy to be schooled on our nations history

I toured the Carter House and battlegrounds two weeks ago. Upon visiting I was taken aback by the great job done by the local community and had no idea that the grounds had been so well preserved. Your video was both Informative and entertaining. Thanks!

I WOULD LOVE TO METAL DETECT THOSE GROUNDS

Thank you, this was honstly fascinating...especially after I went back and read the title again and stopped wondering why I didn't see the water damage. Ohhhhhhh, it actually says "war" damage! Parts of that house looks like Bonnie & Clyde's car. Those Confederates weren't playing. The house itself is beautiful though. It seems to me that Americans from the 1820s, 30s and 40s had innately good test in architecture and design. They understood tasteful aesthetics. IMO that's when the nicest furniture was made too.

I have followed you now through your videos for some time. As I have viewed this particular video, I am reminded of how horrible armed conflict is when it is bestowed upon the members of the civilian population. But you and I , and hundreds of thousands of veterans are fully well aware of how terrible such wars can be and the full cost of what it brings to even those who are not directly involved in service to the nation. It is my hope and indeed my prayer, that we may never again see such a terrible waste of life on our own soil and that we truly, find a deep and meaningful way to work these things out that bring us to the point. Those who want war, will never fully understood the cost of what it brings during the heat of the moment, and long after the cannons have cooled and departed the area. Thank you for bringing another moment in time to the forefront . Highest Regards

9:57 -- For a minute there I was waiting for some theme music in the form of "Starry, Starry Night" was getting ready to come on. Who would have ever imagined that the words: "Starry, starry night / Paint your palette blue and grey / Look out on a summer's day / With eyes that know the darkness in my soul / Shadows on the hills / Sketch the trees and the daffodils / Catch the breeze and the winter chills / In colors on the snowy linen land" -- were not written as a tribute to the men, women, and children that died throughout other pivotal moments of the Civil War. You could have fooled me. Anyone else agree?

When I wake up here in Australia I always enjoy watching these videos before I go to work. Fantastic how America preserves its history. The drone work always catches the eye. Great stuff so informative.

Can you imagine the sounds and smells? The gunpowder, blood, vomit, urine, feces. Gunfire, cannon fire, screaming from the casualties, screaming of orders from the officers, horses running and crying out. I was a docent at the Ray House at Wilson's Creek Nat'l Battlefield near Springfield, Missouri. My assignment was to reimagine the feelings the Ray family may have experienced when their house was taken over as a field hospital. Thank you so much for your insightful and informative episodes.

Been there twice - Love it! It is truly an amazing place and an amazing event. I cannot fathom the noise from that battle nor the heartache in bringing your own dying son back to your house when he was mortally wounded nearby as he fought in the battle.

Took the tour in 2019, and bought the book from the gentleman that wrote about the battle...I highly recommend the tour, it was great.

I lived in Franklin for six years and never took the Carter House tour (but I did for the Carnton Plantation). It is definitely on my list of things to do when I go back to visit. Thank you for showing me what I should have seen a long time ago. Fascinating.

Hello. I'm from Poland, I like watching your channel very much. It's great how you show the history of your country. I observe what is happening there now and it hurts me that I see monuments from the Civil War being destroyed. I understand that this is a "shameful" part of history but it is still history and should be cared for. It should be remembered so that in the future such "embarrassing and awful" things will not happen again. I am looking forward to the next episodes of your "adventures". Best wishes. I invite you to Poland ... sometime .... There is something here to admire not only from World War II. Our history is also "rich and interesting".

My two oldest sons are Marines. I’m sitting at the airport waiting on one and ended up on this video 😢. Thank you for your service teaching and bringing awareness.

My visit to Carter House was several years ago and my small group had a wonderfully knowledgeable guide. He explained how the wall that you showed us when you entered the house where the fireplace is currently, needed to be completely rebuilt because cannon fire blew out the wall and left a large hole in the side of the house. There was another large room on that same level where numerous operations were performed. We were shown how the wood work along the sides of the floor were stained an odd rust color because human blood soaked the boards and they were never able to remove the stains. There were so many interesting stories that I can recall about my tour there. As a history teacher my students really appreciated the information and tour booklet I purchased with photos and remarkable stories about that battle.

The wow factor just broke the old record! This was amazing!

Thank you so much for all your hard work producing these videos! You bring history to life for me. I'm from England and have a huge interest in American history and you show us things that the history books don't. Maybe one day I'll be fortunate enough to visit the USA and see some of these things for myself.

Another fact is the small rocker you showed us is actually a sewing rocker. They made these rockers without arms so as not to get in the way of the women sewing or quilting their quilts. The small size help the ladies reach more of their quilts length without causing stress on their backs and arms and to make the quilts lay out enough so more people could help sew on it. Thank you for sharing this amazing place with us.

Our farmhouse in the Shenandoah Valley had blood stains on the floor in the shape of human bodies. It was the site of the Battle of Toms Brook between Gen. George Custer, USA and Gen. Tom Rosser, CSA. Someone had patched the bullet and cannon ball holes in the walls, but bullets and artillery shrapnel were endemic in the garden soils around the house. One of the soldiers being treated in the house carved the date after the battle on the dining room floor. We also found a skeleton, probably Confederate in the ground about 10 feet in front of the house. Coyotes got it before the archaeologists could come.

Of all the Civil War battlefields I've visited, this one had to be my favorite. It truly is, arguably, the best preserved Civil War battlefield in the US. Some of my favorite landscape/relic photography I've done came from here (especially Carnton). Really enjoy your channel too by the way. You have gotten a new subscriber out of me.

I had the honor to take this tour several years ago. Couldn't get upstairs, but did the basement & yard. Sobering experience but a good one! Great job Sir.

Was I asleep at the switch or did you not have coverage of the log cabin? I have to say this is the 1st time I've ever felt like a was present at an event like this battle. Didn't take any stretch of the imagination at all to make the leap from seeing the damage, to hearing the canons, gunfire & screams. Or to realize the Union soldiers that died between the buildings. Anyone with experience will tell you in a gunfight to "stay off the wall," because the bullets skip along brick & concrete surfaces & if a direct hit doesn't get you the ricochet will. Amazing place. Simply amazing.

That house and family have one AMAZING story to tell. Keep em coming. Probably one of my new favorite channels!

Wow that's amazing, that the family left the damaged of the battle to be seen. It's nice to see history preserved .

What an amazing historical story, still here to show us what war can do 🥺. This channel is fantastic, so glad that I found this gem. Thank you for sharing our history. x

Another excellent video about the battle of Franklin my friend! I appreciate the way that you portrayed this very special place (I'm glad you followed someone's recommendation). The history of what happened there along with the people that fought there (Cleburne, "States Rights"Gist, Strahl, Jacob D Cox, John Bell Hood, MacArthurs father, Opdyke etc etc) makes this truly a special place that everyone should visit. Again Well Done! Deo Vindice

Incredible stuff, man. All the bullet holes in that wall and you can see daylght through them really brings the whole thing into perspective. I just discovered your channel but I can see I'll be watching all your content before it's over. Thanks!

That’s nuts. Being from PA,we always end up at Gettysburg. I never knew about the Carters. Amazing.

My mom grew up on in farm in Eastern Kansas. Found a cannonball in the driveway when she was young. Quantrels riders used to stop to have their horses shod and to be fed. There was a trap door in the kitchen to send the women into the cellar. Always was a rug over it. Old man Ball built the old farmhouse before 1850's lots of history in Eastern Kansas. It was a border state. So many people were killed for being neutral. Just trying to make a living. Love your channel ❤️

I’m glad to see you visit Middle Tennessee. From The Hermitage to the Battle of Franklin, you hit some really cool points. I got to chaperone my son’s 8th grade field trip to the Carter House about a dozen years ago and I was in awe. And I’ve visited the Carnton Plantation a couple times, too. From bullet holes to blood on the floor, it’s a history buff’s dream. You do good work and I appreciate it.

Thanks for making such a nice video! As a Carter family descendant I always love to see their story and the story of the Battle of Franklin shared.

I can only imagine how close and stuffy that upstairs room would have been.

I visited the Carter house five or six years back on one of our visits to the US from Australia. Loved your video, it is an amazing place to visit and pay respects to the brave soldiers who fought and died there.

Went on a battlefield tour a few years ago .and although I am from england ,and we have loads of history.i am fascinated by the american civil war...and I loved every minute of my stay.hope to come and do another tour ,as soon as this virus goes .....best wishes to all....

Wow, my mind is absolutely blown by the story of the house. Thank you for your video bringing this to the wider audience it deserves. Fantastic stuff. Hope you and your family are keeping well

Good preservation imagine that's 1864 era! Didn't deteriorate over 156 years! The maintenance excellent!

Absolutely incredible. What a journey to share. Thank you. With gratitude for all the lives lived and fought here for freedom.

Could you have imagined being inside when a cannon ball would come crashing through the wall let alone bullets? Probably felt like there was no where to hide. I don’t imagine the family wasn’t to thrilled to have “yanks” in their home. I wonder how the Carters were treated by the locals after the battle moved on. The office left me without words. Either one side or the other thought there was someone hold up in the farm office. With all those bullet holes in the office, smoke house & kitchen. I am surprised there weren’t more in the house. I’m sure there may have been , but the Carters couldn’t leave all the bullet holes unplugged. It may have been the way the battle moved to I. The thought was probably someone was in there. Thank you JD! Well done as usual.

11:09 -- Putting a hole in wood is one thing, busting apart brick is another. However, soldiers were firing so close they actually manage to DISLODGE the bricks. Insane. Absolutely insane.

Once again, a great video and tour. Really bring it home when you can see the aftermath in person after so many years. Brings it up close and personel. There is a house in Fredericksburg, Va. that you can view that's shot up pretty good. It's at the base of Marys Heights, smack in the middle of both armys. It's not shot up like this. Really great tour once again.👍

Been there many times and never cease to be amazed. I don't know if you noticed it or not, but the back door of the porch that leads to the interior of the house is interesting. A Federal soldier scrunched against it to shield himself from Confederate fire coming from his left. While standing there he loaded his musket what must have been a few times, and the indentations on the top board above him still shows where his ramrod was hurriedly put in and out of his musket while reloading. The small marks of his ramrod are still there! Thanks for this video. Many people (civilians) hid in the cellar during the battle. Thanks for posting this!

Just took this tour. Amazing to see and stand where history happened. They told us the battle started at 4 pm and being in November it was dark quickly. Cannon fire, musket fire and ultimately brutal hand to hand combat which left more than 50 dead and wounded between the kitchen and back porch! One of the young girls in the cellar later wrote she couldn't hear herself screaming during the battle. Men of conscious bravely fought, bled and died to hold the line.

We often say, "if these walls could talk". Those walls speak and are a remarkable direct link to the past. Go back in time and the bullets are still flying. As we cannot do that (yet), the walls will have to bear silent witness to the battle. Most remarkable. I know many houses in France and buildings in England bear battle damage and they leave it alone to remember.

Thank you for posting , I love history of all kinds and it was unimaginable to think what the Carter and friends survived

This should be viral This was an incredible experience and I live in central Virginia. Wow. Just added this to my bucket list. Thank you so much

Found you by accident. Love history, My new favorite channel. Well done!

Your videos always make me feel like I'm there when I watch them. You just dont know how much I appreciate them. Thank you Brother for what you do 👊

Tennessee and Virginia. The two states with the most action. Virginia is obvious but Tennessee stood on the western front. Without taking key locations in TN, the war was lost. Grant and Sherman were strategy geniuses. I love in the eastern part of Tennessee and Sherman moved through my hometown on his way to begin his march to the sea. Two local homes still stand that were used by union troops. The story goes that Sherman took the Vann house as his quarters and his trips bivuacked in the field across from it. Mr Vann was a staunch confederate and vowed he wouldn't cut his beard until the South won. When he died, his beard was looking enough to throw over his shoulder. And he never used the field again, today is a cemetery. One of his descendants still resides in the house but it was heavily damaged in a tornado direct strike just a couple years ago and it just doesn't reflect the grandeur of the house before. Another great video sir. Thank you!! Stones River is another nearby battle and they're in danger of losing that to encroachment. We were there several years ago and it was amazing despite the fact that you have to drive to the still intact portions.

Wow! Thank you for showing us this! I have heard of the Carter home. This is a great reminder of the passed and the horrors that the family and the workers had to endure.... This video speaks of the value of life. The soldiers of both sides enduring the blast of cannons and bullets to fight for what they believed in. The darken room with the light of a window and the wall of resistance shining with the hope of each soldiers shot! Wow! My only wish to know how many precious lives were lost in the Battle of the Carter Home? Again... thank you for sharing!

I go to the carter house and the battle of franklin site every year. It’s a perfect definition of history frozen in time. Amazing job man. Would love to see you go check out the Battle of Stones River or Battle of Shiloh in the future.

Your channel is very nice and educational. I am obsessed with history. Your channel takes me to places I probably would never have the chance to visit. Thankyou History Traveler.

Love this episode. Not a native English speaker, but the way you talk and your voice is a pleasure to listen.❤

Just saw this and this video helped me understand the brutality of the civil war. When i have read about the battles there is no way i would have imagined that kind of lead being thrown. I've had the impression that a battle starts, shots are fired, a few snipers do their thing then one side retreats to get a better advantage. I hope this makes sense. You're a gem to history buffs. Thanks

Another outstanding video. The amount of firepower that hit that house is frightening.

Wow! That farm office looked like Swiss cheese! So crazy seeing all that damage to all the building's. Another well done video sir!

We are glad you went to film this. This was a very tragic time in history but defined us a a nation. Thank you

Holy smokes !!! Just brings a realism of the life during that time. JD you have expanded my history zeal to another level !! My trip east summer 2022 is getting lengthened by each video I watch !!

Great video, cool place. I love civil war battle fields. Antietam, Perryville, Harpers Ferry, and Gettysburg are my personal favorites. Really wish and hope you continue to do more. Thank you so much

I'm new to your videos but I love history and these are places I'll never get to see in person so I thank you so much.I just watched the Andrew Jackson house now the Carter house.Wonderful❤❤❤🖒🇺🇸

Sobering insight to Civil War impact on Civilians. Impressive, this home is so faithfully preserved. Holy! So many bullets and cannon shot. Must have been terrifying to be caught in the middle. Like to think nothing like that will ever happen again. Thank you.

Great Video. A lot of history that is not taught to our children. Thank you for doing what you do in bring history to the front of another generation.

I love American history, thank you so much for sharing this.

Great home I use to live just down the road from there and would visit often. If I’m not mistaken it was also used to treat the wounded.

I was able to visit Franklin in November 2019. We toured the Carter House and Carnton and the Loetz house. I remember being awestruck the moment they opened the door to the farm office. For a split second it looked like little Christmas lights until I realized it was the light coming through all the bullet holes. An unforgettable moment. The guides did an awesome job at each sight.

When I clicked on this video I didn't realize it was about the Carter House. Born and raised in Nashville, I've been here several times. Here and the Carnton Plantation are amazing places to visit, and the Carnton is where the "Widow of the South" book was written about, the plantation owner Carrie McGavock, and her journey with her home being turned into a war hospital. Upstairs room still has huge blood stains on the floors from surgeries and they would amputate and just throw the pieces out of the window, crazy stuff. Also houses the second largest Confederate cemetery next to the property.

If I remember correctly that is the most bullet ridden building still standing from the Civil War in Tennessee. I see they painted it white now. It was red years ago when I was there.

Wonder if the family kept living there or moved on. The place looked like it wasn't fully repaired and probably at one time came to past to preserve it that way.

Australian viewer...really remarkable vision that brings home the ferocity of those times. When you opened the door of the farm office and walked in I thought the place was lit up with Christmas lights...unbelievable. Thank you.

This is awesome. I'm currently writing a book based in the Civil War about a family who get caught up making ammunition for both sides. It concludes at the Carter house, these videos are really helping to paint the picture and they came at a great time as I'm right at the end. I'm from the UK but I visited Franklin many years ago and brought one of the bullets that they found, that's what kickstarted this story for me, It's going to be the front cover too. Thanks for these videos! Keep up the great work.

So interesting! I'd love to travel the US and visit all of the Civil War sites!

Wow, it is incredible! I wonder why the family never made repairs after the war? I'm glad they didn't but makes you wonder why. You have a new subscriber!

Thank you! I'm so glad I found your channel. I don't get to go see historical places but through you, your channel I feel like I am there.

This really brings history to life! I didn't even know this place existed, so thank you so much. The house is beautiful, bullet holes and all.

I visited all the civil was monuments when I was there. You forgot to mention several interesting things. 1. They took all the food from the smoke house and buried it in the basement with the family under the dining room table with a rug over it so the armies would not steal their food. Also all the upper rooms were turned Into a hospital for the wounded

They really should have reenactments here with historical accuracy of placement and how it happened. Let kids learn what happened by seeing.

My gg grandfather was in the 23rd Michigan Infantry in that area of Tennessee. My other gg grandfather, Macey Sullivan, was from the Franklin area, fought with Baxter's Artillery, fought at Chickamauga, and captured by Sherman near Macon. Great video.

As a History "buff" this is very special to me. Thanks so much!