Museum
Carnton
Federal-style brick plantation house turned Civil War field hospital, its upstairs floors still stained with soldiers' blood.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Carnton in Franklin, Tennessee opens on the bloodstained floorboards of an upstairs bedroom once used as a Civil War operating room. It follows the night of November thirtieth, eighteen sixty-four, when the house filled with wounded from the Battle of Franklin, and traces what its owner, Carrie McGavock, did with that memory for the rest of her life. You will hear about the Confederate cemetery she helped establish nearby and the decades she spent tending it, plus the stories visitors still tell about her.
This audio guide was created using AI.