Tour Stop 35: Tour the Carnton Plantation and Field Hospital at Franklin

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American Battlefield Trust

American Battlefield Trust

2 жыл бұрын

Carnton, built in 1826, was one of the premier farms in Middle Tennessee. On November 30, 1864, the home and the McGavocks who lived there found themselves in the middle of one of the most dramatic events of the Civil War. Join Eric Jacobson from the Battle of Franklin Trust for a tour of the grounds and details about the role it played in the Battle of Franklin.
This video is part of our Battlefield Tour Series covering Civil War Tennessee and Mississippi. View the full playlist here: • Civil War Tennessee/Mi...
The American Battlefield Trust preserves America’s hallowed battlegrounds and educates the public about what happened there and why it matters. We permanently protect these battlefields for future generations as a lasting and tangible memorial to the brave soldiers who fought in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War.

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@delnunley7026
@delnunley7026 Жыл бұрын
I’ve been there at least 3 times and loved it. This series has been wonderful - can’t get enough. My next vacation will be here.
@erniebarney9386
@erniebarney9386 2 жыл бұрын
I only hope in the future that preserved historical places, public or private, are not erased by political correctness the likes of which we are now experiencing. Thanks for this great series!
@blukeblue1235
@blukeblue1235 2 жыл бұрын
Eric Jacobson does such a heartfelt and serious presentation on this video. He really is one of the best presenters in this series. (They are ALL great by the way). Thanks Mr Jacobson!
@dennisreeder754
@dennisreeder754 Жыл бұрын
Great job, very informative. I just hate when people use the word arguably. What does that mean And why do people use it in a whosale manner?
@katherinemakinney3932
@katherinemakinney3932 11 ай бұрын
@@dennisreeder754 There are different opinions. It's a statement of humility.
@dennisreeder754
@dennisreeder754 11 ай бұрын
@@katherinemakinney3932 i just hear that statement all the time and it seems to me it being overused . Thanks for the clarification.
@miknosilanooram
@miknosilanooram Ай бұрын
It truly does give you goosebumps when you walk onto the grounds. I wish I could spend the night in the house to just soak up feelings.
@bretrath6073
@bretrath6073 2 жыл бұрын
Eric Jacobson is a wonderful enthusiastic historian !!! Keep up the great work
@jared7964
@jared7964 2 жыл бұрын
This is now one of my favorite channels on KZfaq. Thank you guys for the work putting together these videos!
@carylosborn1808
@carylosborn1808 2 жыл бұрын
Love that house and the stories of what this family did. A movie about them should be made
@joanpellillo2981
@joanpellillo2981 Ай бұрын
Very good tour - I loved to see all the history. This is amazing place.....
@sambradley2747
@sambradley2747 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent historic series on the Western Theater of the Civil War. Thank you for sharing.
@toooltyme
@toooltyme 2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic job bringing middle Tennessee's battles into the light. If you ever plan another campaign video series please look at Sherman's march to the sea and Carolinas. Perhaps stop at Andersonville.
@robertspecht1911
@robertspecht1911 6 ай бұрын
Very informative talk and moving experience on how the dead were cared for. Thank You!
@bugler1304
@bugler1304 2 жыл бұрын
Visited there this past May. Will never forget what I saw there and what happened there!!! And, remember that those bloodstains soaked through a thick carpet on that floor.....I am very glad that I had the opportunity to visit that place. Truly memorable!
@lizlittle1641
@lizlittle1641 2 жыл бұрын
I love this house. It is like visiting a memorial. Very sobering experience.
@AngieHalladay
@AngieHalladay Жыл бұрын
one of my fondest memories of my trip to Nashville.
@kevinstow3694
@kevinstow3694 Жыл бұрын
G'day from Down Under. I've had an interest in the American Civil War for quite a long time, certainly since watching the Ken Burns series on the War. On one of my visits to the States some 15 or more years ago, which included a visit to Nashville (I'm a CM fan), my wife and I stumbled onto Franklin, the Battle of Franklin and Carnton House. We visited Carter House in Franklin, took the tour and were amazed at how the battle progressed around the house, the bullet damage in the buildings and how the family survived in the cellar. We were then directed to Carnton House and the Confederate Cemetery and toured the area and, although we couldn't visit the house, we were able to get a good view of the house from a gap in the hedge. We then visited the cemetery where we noticed a lady placing poppies on the headstones. We started a conversation and found that she was a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy and she placed poppies at the headstones on every Memorial Day. As part of the conversation she told us about Carnton house being a hospital with dead and wounded spread all over the verandah and other areas, such was the carnage. I assume that the practice still goes on today. During our conversation she gave some opinions about the Civil War but the comment that really surprised me was when she said: "I'm glad the North won because I don't think we'd have become the nation we are today if the South had prevailed" or words to that effect. Eye opening to me, a visitor, and it made me wonder how many other people might feel that way. I don't know as this was the only time I ever heard such a comment but, as I say, I found the visit interesting, the houses interesting and the cemetery interesting as well as the conversation. Glad to see it's all still there and being cared for for future generations.
@joanpellillo2981
@joanpellillo2981 Жыл бұрын
I loved the hearing the stories of the civil war. The courage and strength of the family Mc Gavocks handle what happen there changed their lives, I took the tour in 2021. I was amazed how Gracious and honoring the family took such good care of the wounded and those that fought. in civil war. The MC Gavocks family took such great care on burying the wounded by state. on their property. My good friend Husband Great -great and so on. told me his grandfather fought on the confederate side of the battle (that was so cool). I would recommend. everyone going here. Keep their stories alive!
@bjohnson515
@bjohnson515 2 жыл бұрын
"The Widow of the South" a great historical novel about the tracking down of the dead by the family members and the task of forming the cemetery. Very good book.
@kathyw2355
@kathyw2355 2 жыл бұрын
But according to what he just said Carrie is not the one who wrote the names in the book, not did he mention what the book spoke of as to where these soldiers came from. Now I am rethinking where the truth is. Yes I realize there is a reason it's called a novel my simple question is which one holds more of the truth. No matter the outcome my opinion of the McGavocks will not falter I am still in awe of what they did and how they took care of those men even in death.
@michaelbolton1276
@michaelbolton1276 2 жыл бұрын
Seen it 2008, Franklin, Spring hill , Stones River, Rippavilla, Nashville. It was beyond any descripted words then. Now it looks to be even more.
@BemusedHumanist
@BemusedHumanist 2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful series of videos on Spring Hill and Franklin. Informative AND moving.
@jimwilson7824
@jimwilson7824 2 жыл бұрын
Great video gentleman. I have visited the Franklin battle field several times and the homes and the cemetery. It is never any less sobering at each visit of what happened here and the destruction of the Confederate Army at this battle. Beautiful area. I’ve also visited the cemetery in Helena, Arkansas where General Cleburne was relocated to. When you see the blood stains in the Carnton house and realize they are still there over 150 years later it really hits home. Thanks for showing everyone this area.
@65bugnut
@65bugnut 2 жыл бұрын
I visited Carnton 3 years ago. When my tour group was there, a thunderstorm rolled through. You could almost image a little bit of the noise that was going on when the battle was being fought.
@nathanfisher1826
@nathanfisher1826 2 жыл бұрын
Wow great job thanks
@mlj6293
@mlj6293 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you guys so much for bringing this to us ❤. We honor the dead by talking about them and remembering what they did ,as you know. Thank you👍👊👏💪
@spankthatdonkey
@spankthatdonkey 2 жыл бұрын
Definitely plan to visit Franklin. Thank you for the video!
@alexvangen745
@alexvangen745 2 жыл бұрын
My aunt on my moms side lives literally 2 minutes from carton plantation. This plantation was the first civil war site I visited when I was around the ages of 8-9! I will go back again to visit this battle I don’t remember most of my time there except for there
@uscitizen4172
@uscitizen4172 8 ай бұрын
Amazing! Thanks!
@mickeyholding7970
@mickeyholding7970 2 жыл бұрын
Salute and Respect RIP
@Superduper666
@Superduper666 2 жыл бұрын
Wow. I live near here and never heard of this place. I plan on visit here and the Carter House this summer.
@MegaMixking
@MegaMixking 9 ай бұрын
incredible video - cant wait to see this for myself. i have kin from the Wayneville area.
@wmschooley1234
@wmschooley1234 2 жыл бұрын
Perhaps David J. Eicher said it best in his book The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War (p 774) when he wrote: Hood "had in effect mortally wounded his army at Franklin.
@paulenterline3107
@paulenterline3107 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent inspiring vid.
@sherribaker9135
@sherribaker9135 2 жыл бұрын
What a fascinating story!
@celticnorthman3615
@celticnorthman3615 2 жыл бұрын
Very moving, great job!!!!
@lawtonlancaster5753
@lawtonlancaster5753 Жыл бұрын
They say Gettysburg was something. So much right there with tod Carter and that house also.
@user-pp5xj5ge3q
@user-pp5xj5ge3q 10 ай бұрын
The stones church right outside of Ringgold Gap still has blood stains in the church very well preserved hospital from the war
@kenjohnston8173
@kenjohnston8173 5 ай бұрын
I walked the carter garden and north battlefield and just imagined the total chaos, blood, death, noise for about 2-3 hours, confederates caught in the breastworks. Pretty violent holy ground.
@GodseyKnives
@GodseyKnives 2 жыл бұрын
That is a special place,hard to think/ or Imagine That war left the death and suffering on your doorstep in your home and front yard regardless of position on the war they had to deal with it . What has happened at Rippavilla I was told people who had items displayed removed belongings from the house who is managing it now and why would they do so ?
@bdburg72165
@bdburg72165 5 ай бұрын
Visited lt last year. It’s well worth it.l
@samuelclayton4405
@samuelclayton4405 7 ай бұрын
God rest their souls.
@ciarandoyle4349
@ciarandoyle4349 2 жыл бұрын
Are the McGavocks of Carnton the same family as that of Lt Col McGavock of the 10th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, who was killed at Raymond during the Vicksburg campaign?
@outdoorlife5396
@outdoorlife5396 2 жыл бұрын
It seems like in early America, war provided a chance for MD's to really learn and try different stuff to save lives
@tomcarl8021
@tomcarl8021 Жыл бұрын
And it still does.
@franksnyder1357
@franksnyder1357 2 жыл бұрын
Ouch.
@benjaminrush4443
@benjaminrush4443 2 жыл бұрын
People sometimes do not realize that the Civil War could have ended in favor of the Confederacy many times including this battle. Thanks.
@kathyw2355
@kathyw2355 2 жыл бұрын
So Carrie wasn't the one who wrote in the book of the dead? The owner of the field where they were originally buried didn't say he was going to plant in that field again and the McGavock's didn't organize the removal to Carnton? Okay I am so confused because of what I've read or heard is not the way it happened? I know she took care of the cemetery as did her husband. It won't stop me from getting out there in June for my birthday but I would like to go knowing I know the truth about what happened and how. So thank you for this video and I will be doing more research on Carnton and the battle of Franklin.
@HarryMarsee-fw9ot
@HarryMarsee-fw9ot 6 ай бұрын
The title said TOUR OF THE PLANTATION HOUSE and you did not show us the house, except for one room.
@geoffcapp7257
@geoffcapp7257 2 жыл бұрын
Hey Garry.
@johnzajac9849
@johnzajac9849 2 жыл бұрын
The bodies were lying.........*
@NPB0067
@NPB0067 2 жыл бұрын
JB Hood has the blood on his hands for that fiasco!
@rchrdjms62
@rchrdjms62 2 жыл бұрын
I've known some of this and enjoy the video. But a couple of days ago I was looking up the information about Stonewall Jackson and it makes me sick to my heart to read about the removal of so many statues of Great Men from the East, Charlottesville and Richmond.
@a1fixitguy309
@a1fixitguy309 4 ай бұрын
Did Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest threaten Conferderate General Hood's life on that porch?
@ericjacobson7321
@ericjacobson7321 3 ай бұрын
No
@a1fixitguy309
@a1fixitguy309 3 ай бұрын
@@ericjacobson7321 Can you make videos of the entrechments built quick buy the union soldiers and the bridge that was washed out...the old harpeth bridge...I understand that the union soldiers hadn't sleep in 2.5 days when they built the entrenchments?
@paulsikoris9696
@paulsikoris9696 2 жыл бұрын
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@Hanks1938ELKnucklehead
@Hanks1938ELKnucklehead 11 ай бұрын
If you ever wonder why this video only has 17k views in 1 year, it's because of the poor production quality and bad presentation. There's nothing worse than someone trying to hype something that has no idea how to do it.
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