The Carter House - Battle of Franklin


	The Carter House - Battle of Franklin

willhelm

10-30-2009 10:22 PM

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10-31-2009 6:36 AM

lassouth

How very interesting!! Love the house....

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4f9d63b1-52cd-42c9-a1cb-31932fdfeacb/B9D1EE01-240F-4E1F-B316-AB05785B9341/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.carter-house.org/" href="http://www.carter-house.org/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.carter-house.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.carter-house.org/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.carter-house.org/img/680E13BC-CE8B-4257-88A3-80F689238D70" alt="house" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.carter-house.org/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.carter-house.org/img/14442EB3-2550-44D4-AB76-BBF7A4DE590B" alt="carter-house-02" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carter_House_(Franklin,_Tennessee)&oldid=315776609" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carter_House_(Franklin,_Tennessee)&oldid=315776609" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carter_House_(Franklin,_Tennessee)&oldid=315776609"><P>The <B>Carter House</B> is a historic house situated near downtown <A title="Franklin, Tennessee" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin,_Tennessee">Franklin, Tennessee</A>. In that house, the Carter family along with neighbors and servants hid in the basement waiting for the <A class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Franklin II" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Franklin_II">second Battle of Franklin</A> to end. It is a Tennessee state historic site, and it is a <A title="Contributing property" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributing_property">contributing property</A> and centerpiece of the <A title="Franklin Battlefield" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Battlefield">Franklin Battlefield</A>, a U.S. <A title="National Historic Landmark" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Historic_Landmark">National Historic Landmark</A> historic district.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carter_House_(Franklin,_Tennessee)&oldid=315776609">Fountain Branch Carter completed construction of the house in 1830. The federal style brick farm house was accompanied by several other outbuildings</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carter_House_(Franklin,_Tennessee)&oldid=315776609">the house and the other three buildings are still intact and illustrate the horror of the Civil War battle with over a thousand bullet holes still visible.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carter_House_(Franklin,_Tennessee)&oldid=315776609">The Carter House played a very important role in the Second Battle of Franklin. Prior to the fight, the house was used as Federal headquarters and the breastworks were set up just south of the farm</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carter_House_(Franklin,_Tennessee)&oldid=315776609">After the battle it was used as field hospital aiding both Federal and Confederate wounded.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B9D1EE01-240F-4E1F-B316-AB05785B9341/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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