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Read about the Carnton Plantation, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnton https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnton It was a temporary field hospital for the Ba
by ewams 8y ago
Read about the Carnton Plantation, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnton https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnton
It was a temporary field hospital for the Battle of Franklin in Tennessee. It doesn't talk about it in the wiki page but if you search for "Carnton house blood stains" or go on a tour yourself you can see how horrific it was. Quite literally you can see the blood stained floorboards today from the civil war. You can still walk on them.
There is a place on the second floor where one of the surgeons had a bucket on the floor to hold his tools and the entire floor around it is stained with blood except for a small ring from the bucket which is unstained.
Highly recommend a tour of the house, grounds, and small museum especially if you like history. Plus let me know if you are in town. ;)
- LyndsySimon 8y agoWow. My wife has ancestors that fought in the Battle of Franklin, and we’ve toured the house a couple of times. We’re planning on making it to the descendants gathering at some point. The idea of my kids’ great-great-...-grandfather marching across that valley into the Union lines and near-certain defeat is haunting. They knew it was a lost cause, without question. We make it a point to play “The Bonnie Blue Flag” every time we drive through that area.