Carnton Plantation: Featuring the Photographs of Bruce Wold with Foreward by Robert Hicks

A Beautiful coffee table book.


For a hundred years, beginning in the early days of the 19th century, Carnton Plantation was the home of Randal McGavock's family and, until the war, the enslaved families who labored there. In so many ways, their stories were not unlike the stories of hundreds of families, both black and white, on hundreds of plantations in those years throughout the South.

All that was to change forever with the Battle of Franklin. Serving as the principal field hospital for the Southern Army, Carnton was transformed on that fateful night, in one observer's words into "the Morgue of the Confederacy." Then, some two years later, with the creation of the McGavock Confederate Cemetery, this seat of the living was transformed into the 'temple of the dead.’

This is the story of Carnton through the photographs of Bruce Wolf. Additional photography was contributed by Eric Jacobson and Brian Meneguzzi.

A forward by Robert Hicks is included.

100% of the profits of this book return to The Battle of Franklin Trust.