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Killed in the Battle of Franklin Age 22, from Arkansas Buried as Unknown McEwen Bivouac pictured at the Franklin Confederate Monument. The Bivouac were early caretakers of the Confederate Cemetery Contributions The work required to maintain this historic treasure is an expensive endeavor.

Franklin. McGavock Confederate Cemetery. Added: 22 Nov 2001. Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 940400. This cemetery holds the remains of the Confederate soldiers who were killed in the November 30, 1864 Battle of Franklin. This cemetery figures prominently in Robert Hicks's novel, The Widow of the...

The bodies of four Confederate generals lay on the back porch on the morning of December 1, 1864. In 1866, the family donated two acres for the McGavock Confederate Cemetery and oversaw the reburial of nearly 1,500 soldiers. Robert Hicks immortalized Carrie McGavock in his New York Times bestseller The Widow of the South.

Today, the cemetery, located off the Lewisburg Pike to the northwest of the McGavock mansion, was established in 1866, contains the bodies of 1,481 soldiers and one civilian and is the largest privately owned military cemetery in the United States.

This 1826 Antebellum mansion was used as a hospital during the Battle of Franklin, and its wood floors still show blood stains from the more than 300 Union and Confederate soldiers brought in that day. The adjacent McGavock Confederate Cemetery contains 1,500 graves, the largest private Confederate cemetery in the U.S.

The McGavock Confederate Cemetery is the nation's largest private Confederate cemetery. Located on 2 acres of the Carnton plantation in Franklin, Tennessee, the cemetery is the burial site for 1481 Confederates killed at the Battle of Franklin.

The McGavock Confederate Cemetery is located in Franklin, Tennessee. It was established in June 1866 as a private cemetery on land donated by the McGavock planter family.

Winder McGavock lived at Carnton with his family until his death in 1907. His widow sold the house out of the family in 1911. The McGavock Confederate Cemetery has been maintained since then by the Franklin Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.