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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 534064" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Another one that I've read over and over again is "The Widow of the South" by Robert Hicks. It's fascinating if you're in to historical fiction or the Civil War era. Details are fictionalized but all the characters, all the happenings, were real. It's set in Franklin, Tennessee, less than a two hour drive from where I live. It's an account of the McGavock family who lived on the Carnton Plantation, next to the site of the Battle of Franklin, one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. Their home was taken over by the Union Army and used as a field hospital. After the battle, the wife, Carrie McGavock, arranged for the 1500 Confederate soldiers that were killed there to be buried in an elaborate cemetery she set up on the plantation grounds. She devoted the rest of her life to maintaining this cemetery and corresponding with the families of the soldiers buried there. And it's all still there - the plantation house with the original furniture and old family portraits still hanging on the walls, and the cemetery! You can even see it on Google Earth! Carrie McGavock was the great-great grandmother of one of my good friends and one of these days we're going to make the drive to Franklin and see it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 534064, member: 1883"] Another one that I've read over and over again is "The Widow of the South" by Robert Hicks. It's fascinating if you're in to historical fiction or the Civil War era. Details are fictionalized but all the characters, all the happenings, were real. It's set in Franklin, Tennessee, less than a two hour drive from where I live. It's an account of the McGavock family who lived on the Carnton Plantation, next to the site of the Battle of Franklin, one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. Their home was taken over by the Union Army and used as a field hospital. After the battle, the wife, Carrie McGavock, arranged for the 1500 Confederate soldiers that were killed there to be buried in an elaborate cemetery she set up on the plantation grounds. She devoted the rest of her life to maintaining this cemetery and corresponding with the families of the soldiers buried there. And it's all still there - the plantation house with the original furniture and old family portraits still hanging on the walls, and the cemetery! You can even see it on Google Earth! Carrie McGavock was the great-great grandmother of one of my good friends and one of these days we're going to make the drive to Franklin and see it. [/QUOTE]
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