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The Battle of Franklin
James R. Knight




Eyewitnesses at the Battle of Franklin - David K. Logdon






For Cause and Country
Eric R. Jacobson





Invisible Hero
Patrick R. Cleburne
Bruce H. Stewart Jr.






John Bell Hood
The War for Southern Independence
Richard M. McMurry






Captain Todd Carter
Confederate States Army Rosalie Carter



GIFT SHOP

The Carter House Gift Shop is run by The Carter House Association, a non-profit organization that helps preserve the historical site of the Battle of Franklin.  Revenues earned on the sales of this Gift Shop go to help run the faculties and the preservation of our site.  We appreciate your patronage and support of our store.

BOOKS

The Battle of Franklin: When the Devil Had Full Possession of the Earth - James R. Knight
Published by The History Press for the Civil War Sesquicentennial Series

This is the newest book released on the bloody events that happened in Franklin, TN on November 30, 1864.  With firsthand accounts, letters and diary entries from the Carter House Archives, local historian and Carter House descendant, James R. Knight paints a vivid picture of this gruesome conflict.

$19.95 (paperback)

Eyewitness at the Battle of Franklin - by David Logsdon
David Logsdon has read and documented hundreds of journal entries, letters and official documents from more than ninety men, women, and children (soldiers & civilians) who survived the Battle of Franklin.  The reader will be transformed back in time as they read the words of the people who experienced the battle and the aftermath first hand.  Literally hundreds of quotes are listed in chronological order to tell this increasable story.


  $12.95 (paperback)

David Logsdon has read and documented hundreds of journal entries, letters and official documents from more than ninety men, women, and children (soldiers & civilians) who survived the Battle of Franklin.  The reader will be transformed back in time as they read the words of the people who experienced the battle and the aftermath first hand.  Literally hundreds of quotes are listed in chronological order to tell this increasable story.  

Also available in this series of books are the  "Eyewitnesses of  the . . ."

bullet Battle of Ft. Donaldson

$12.95 (paperback)

bullet Battle of Shiloh

$12.95 (paperback)

bullet Battle of Stones River

$12.95 (paperback)

bullet Battle of Nashville

$12.95 (paperback)

bullet Battle of Perryville

$12.95 (paperback)




For Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin. by Eric A. Jacobson and co-author Richard A. Rupp

 
Eric Jacobson is the operations director for the Battle of Franklin Trust that oversees the historical sites at the Carter House and the Carnton Plantation.  He has done extensive studies of the events of November 29 & 30, 1864 in Middle Tennessee.  Using previously untapped resources, he sheds an entirely different light on those dark and difficult days.  Civil War enthusiast will delight in this well-written exploration of one of the bloodiest and most costly campaigns of the Civil War.


$29.95 (Hard Cover)


Invisible Hero Patrick R. Cleburne

by Bruce H. Stewart, Jr.

This book presents a level of detail that is unsurpassed in the study of this significant figure.  Along with the introduction of pertinent maps, this approach allows the reader to actually visualize the battlefield with a clear understanding of the movements of Cleburne's command.


$35.00 (Hard Cover)

John Bell Hood and The War for Southern Independence by Richard M. McMurry.

John Bell Hood earned notoriety for his leadership of the Texas brigade early in the Civil War.  He rose in the ranks to become the youngest of the full generals of the Confederacy.  In this prize-winning book Richard McMurry details Hood's rise in Confederate ranks to his disastrous failure at the end of the War.  At the same time, McMurry is concerned to do justice to one of the most misunderstood figures in Civil War history.


$17.95 (paperback)


Captain Tod Carter - Confederate States Army by Rosalie Carter (the great niece of Tod Carter and granddaughter of Moscow Carter).

Dr. Rosalie Carter DDS was born at a cottage next door to the Carter House and spent her entire life in the shadow of this historic battle field.  Hearing stories first hand from her family and soldiers who would return for reunions of the Battle of Franklin, she has compiled a biographical sketch of her grand uncle, Tod Carter.  Included in this booklet are some of the war correspondence that Tod wrote for The Chattanooga Daily Rebel under the assumed name of "Mint Julep".

This booklet chronicles some of amazing story of Capt. Tod Carter

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Born at the Carter House March 24, 1840

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Attorney-at-Law

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Master Mason

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Captain 20th Tennessee Regiment CSA

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Assistant Quartermaster

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Provost Marshal

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War Correspondent

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Captured at Missionary Ridge, TN

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Prisoner of War, Johnson's Island, OH

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Escapes from transport train

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Rejoins his regiment in GA

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Aide to Gen. Thomas Benton Smith

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Mortally wounded at the Battle of Franklin Nov. 30, 1864

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Died at the Carter House Dec. 2, 1864 (age 24)



$6.50 (paperback)