Museum
Carter House
Federal-style farmhouse and cellar refuge, its brick walls and outbuildings still pocked with over a thousand Civil War bullet holes.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Carter House in Franklin, Tennessee follows the family that sheltered in their own cellar through the Battle of Franklin on November thirtieth, eighteen sixty-four, sharing that dark room with hidden food and strangers seeking the same refuge. It traces Fountain Branch Carter's household and the enslaved workers who ran the farm through fighting that left the walls scarred with bullet holes. The cellar itself still sits below the house, its brick floor worn where the family and their neighbors crowded together that night.
This audio guide was created using AI.