Carnton Plantation Ghost Stories

Used as a Confederate field hospital during the Battle of Franklin II in the fall of 1864, Carnton Plantation played a vital role in the American War for Southern Independence. Nearly 2,000 Confederate soldiers died in and around the home, leaving a psychic imprint of death, violence, fear, pain, and terror etched into its very walls. The result is that today Carnton is not only one of the nation's most important historic homes, it is also Tennessee's most haunted Civil War house. Southern historian and award-winning Tennessee author Lochlainn Seabrook has assembled over a dozen authentic ghost stories associated with Carnton Plantation in an absorbing book that includes a brief history of the home, a Southern look at the Civil War, the family tree of its founders the McGavocks, over 100 illustrations, a "Ghostly Glossary," a comprehensive index and bibliography, suggestions on how to help preserve America's unique Southern heritage, and a complete list of the dead buried at the McGavock Confederate Cemetery in Franklin, Tennessee. Written for all ages, "Carnton Plantation Ghost Stories" is entertaining yet educational, diverting yet gripping, a book that everyone from ghost-hunters to Civil War buffs will want on their shelf. It's one of our top sellers, not only at bookstores, but at Civil War sites, historic house gift shops, and museum stores. Seabrook, a former Carnton tour guide and a relative of the McGavock and Winder families, is the winner of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal, awarded by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Known as the "American Robert Graves" after his celebrated English cousin, Seabrook is the sixth great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford and the author of over thirty popular adult and children's books, including "The McGavocks of Carnton Plantation: A Southern History"; "The Quotable Robert E. Lee"; "The Unquotable Abraham Lincoln"; "Lincolnology: The Real Abraham Lincoln Revealed in His Own Words"; "The Quotable Jefferson Davis"; "A Rebel Born: A Defense of Nathan Bedford Forrest"; "Abraham Lincoln: The Southern View";"Nathan Bedford Forrest: Southern Hero, American Patriot"; and "The Caudills: An Etymological, Ethnological, and Genealogical Study."