McGavock's Cemetery

[12th Missouri Yankee]

Hello. Any hauntings or legends associated with Mc Gavock's Confederate Cemetery? Any stories welcome.

 

[redbob]

Several years ago while Carnton was undergoing restoration, my wife and I visited the cemetery and when we entered it,it started lightly raining on us. This light rain continued the whole time we were in the cemetery and when we left it stopped. The strange part was that it did not appear to have been raining anywhere but in the cemetery. My wife and I neither one particularly believe in wraiths or ghosts, but...needless to say, we did beat a hasty retreat.

 

[12th Missouri Yankee]

That is a good story!
I wonder how many unidentified confederate soldiers are buried there?

 

[redbob]

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That is a good story!
I wonder how many unidentified confederate soldiers are buried there?

1,481 Confederate soldiers are buried in the McGavock Cemetery, however I don't know how many of them are unknowns.

 

[12th Missouri Yankee]

Thanks. I have seen metal identification pins to identify men, and heard some sewed information in their uniforms. No dog tags yet... so many soldiers are not identified properly. The days before DNA analysis.

 

[Cumpston1862]

"The McGavock Confederate Cemetery is the largest privately held Confederate cemetery in the United States. It is located in Franklin, Tennessee. The nearly 1,500 Confederate soldiers buried there were casualties during the Battle of Franklin that took place November 30, 1864. 780 of the soldiers' identities are known today, leaving 558 as unknown but not forgotten.

Rest well boys. Your work is done."

 

[12th Missouri Yankee]

Thank you Cumpston 1862.

 

[Cumpston1862]

Thank you Cumpston 1862.

My pleasure and compliments.

 

[12th Missouri Yankee]

One might think with The anniversary foot traffic that there would be more activity....
The image on a prominent magazine that I saw of it in the fog is incredible.
Certainly another location to see on my lengthy "Bucket List".

 

[12th Missouri Yankee]

Are there any Christmas ghost stories associated with the McGavock Confederate Cemetery???
what I would give to walk there today....

 

[capt13th]

about 5 or 6 years ago, we attended a small living history/skirmish there. saturday night, there were about 20 of us walking through the cemetery and we all stopped to talk. all of a sudden in the distance we could hear musket fire. it sounded like several hundred guns. the "battle" lasted about 10 minutes or so. we were a little freaked out. the gun fire was coming from the direction of the carter house.

 

[12th Missouri Yankee]

Funny,..... I got chills reading about the musket fire. Nice post Capt.13th!

 

[capt13th]

now that i think about it, the reason we were walking throught the cemetery that night was that there have been sightings of a soldier that stands by one of the trees, and supposedly he has been caught in some photos.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Hello. Any hauntings or legends associated with Mc Gavock's Confederate Cemetery? Any stories welcome.

You may enjoy this article,

HISTORY OF MANIFESTATIONS:

A graveyard where 1700 Confederate soldiers, who had died in the fields near this mansion were hastily buried after this bloody conflict, is located close to Carnton Mansion. After the horrible battle was over, Carnton Mansion became a hospital, where 4 generals died of their wounds, and their bodies s laid in state so the men who were lucky enough to survive could show their respect.

A young house servant girl was murdered in the kitchen by a jealous field hand in the 1840's, because she rejected him as a suitor.

Out of their five offspring, only 2 of the Cantron children made it into adulthood.

INSIDE MANIFESTATIONS

Two spirits haunt the kitchen area of the mansion, and sometimes move to other parts of the house.

A mischievous spirit likes to play tricks on the living, when not doing chores like washing the dishes in the kitchen. Hearing some noises from the small, enclosed porch off the back of the house, the curator went to investigate. She found two old panes of glass, on either side of the back door, which had been taken down from a box of panes, located on a shelf. It is thought that this spirit was the girl who had been murdered.

A beautiful young girl, with long brown hair appeared to a workman on the second floor hall way, inspiring his hasty retreat down the stairs. Workmen now go upstairs in pairs.

A soldier's spirit has moved into one of the bedrooms. Perhaps he died there, or close by outside, and decided to move into the mansion and stay there, perhaps not quite ready to leave. A picture of the mansion mysteriously crashed to the floor in this bedroom, and was found on top of the floor heater, a place that it couldn't get to by itself.

A ghost of a lady dressed in white haunts the back porch area, sometimes floating into the backyard.

Spirits of the fallen are especially active in the Autumn months, at dusk.

The entire article is at:
http://provingparanormal.blogspot.com/2009/05/carnton-plantation-mcgavock-cemetary.html

 

[12th Missouri Yankee]

Great stories! Thank you.
Twice since I joined CWT near a farm only a quarter mile from home I have felt a poke on my left shoulder while driving, sure enough after I slow down a big deer walks across the road in front of my car. No one else is in the car but my small dog who can't reach my shoulder. No explanation except something is protecting me.

 

[Northern Light]

Carnton has been on my bucket list ever since I read Widow of the South. Wonderful novel!

 

[Nathanb1]

Carnton is a must....honestly, Franklin is just a gem, and well worth the time and effort to go there.

 

[12th Missouri Yankee]

Has anyone been visiting the cemetery in this winter weather?? I wonder about it all the time.

 

[James N.]

Has anyone been visiting the cemetery in this winter weather?? I wonder about it all the time.

Not in winter, but here it is on a nice afternoon in May:

 

[12th Missouri Yankee]

The cemetery looks very well maintained. It must look interesting with a fresh blanket of snow too.