Contact info or to schedule a tour
Book a tour of the Battle of Franklin
[Custom tours hosted by Kraig McNutt; 4-15 hours]
Web Resources
Battle of Franklin blog (since 2006)
Descendants of the Battle of Franklin
(Submit info on your ancestor)
Battle of Franklin Facebook Group
Faces of Franklin Pinterest Group
@BattleFranklin [Twitter]
McGavock Confederate Cemetery [open]
Google Maps
Troop positions [open]
Franklin Civil War Tour Map [open]
Fort Granger Virtual Tour [open]
Civil War Williamson County Virtual Tour [open]
Videos | Bloghistorian – YouTube [browse and find Franklin videos]
Preservation
Domino’s Strip Mall will Soon Be Demolished (2012) – [Watch] | 2nd video
Franklin’s Charge, 2012 News Conference – [Watch]
Holt House and Franklin Federal Line (before removal), 2010 – [Watch]
View of Carter House Office and Smokehouse, showing original battle damage – [Watch]
Video two
Cotton Gin Action, Franklin’s Charge, 2008 – [Watch]
Robert Hicks, Franklin’s Charge Press Conference, June 2008 – [Watch]
Carter Garden Ceremony, Thomas Cartwright, April 2010 – [Watch]
Carnton
Bloodstains on the Floor – [Watch] | Clip two |
McGavock Confederate Cemetery
Go to their Graves Like Beds, Music Video – [Watch]
Going Home, Music Video – [Watch]
Shenandoah, Music Video – [Watch]
Amazing Grace Bagpipes at 2011 McGavock CSA Cemetery Memorial [Watch]
Widow Mrs Pleasant Hope (Living History), 2010 speech – [Watch]
8th Georgia Regimental Band, Amazing Grace, 2010 – [Watch]
Historian Thomas Flagel, 2009 Illumination Ceremony – [Watch]
2008 Blue-Gray Days – [Watch]
Fort Granger
360 degree pan starting in SE bastion [Watch]
Eric Jacobson – Historian, CEO, Battle of Franklin Trust
Franklin’s Charge, 2012 News Conference – [Watch]
Casualties among Confederate Commanders? [Watch]
The Confederate Generals who Died at Franklin? [Watch]
Hood’s Charge at Franklin in It’s Historical Context? [Watch]
Jacobson speaks at the 144th Anniversary – [Watch]
Jacobson speaks at 146th Anniversary, 2010 – [Watch]
Cleburne is Brought to Carnton – [Watch]
Next Day for Carrie McGavock – [Watch]
Cleburne and Spring Hill – [Watch]
Caring for the Carnton Wounded, 2008 – [Watch]
A.P. Stewart’s Corps at Franklin, 2008 – [Watch]
Cleburne’s Proposal, 2008 – [Watch]
Thomas Cartwright
Action Around the Cotton Gin – [Watch]
Action in Front of the Carter House – [Watch]
Cartwright speaks at 146th Anniversary, 2010 – [Watch]
Unknown Solider Reburial | 2009
Clip one [9:45] | Clip two [3:47]
Union and Confederate Sons Meet for First Time – [Watch] | Clip two |
[Harold Becker and CSA Son James Brown, Jr., 2009]
Elegy: Franklin’s Fields of Glory, Robin Hood, 2009 – [Watch]
Pall-Bearers Escort Casket out of St. Paul’s, 2009 – [Watch]
Photo Galleries
Civil War Williamson County [Flickr]
The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 