Day 12 - Sunday, September 21
The day didn't start well - I followed most of the MUFC v Leicester game which was an early kick-off in the UK - breakfast time in Nashville.
We went 3-1 up just after half time and then proceeded to lose 5-3. Shambles.
We drove out to Franklin - a pleasant prosperous town a few miles south of the city, with lots of big historic (by US standards) houses. We stopped for a coffee and a walk about and then moved on to the nearby Carnton Plantation. On the way out of town we noticed this house which was Hallowe'en-ready about 6 weeks early...
Franklin was the site of a major civil war battle in November 1864 and resulted in a catastrophic defeat for the confederate forces. Carnton was commandeered by the confederates as a field hospital. Apparently the family who owned the house got heavily involved in the care of the wounded and subsequently created, on their estate and not too far from the house, a huge confederate war cemetery. The graves are grouped by state.
The events of the battle and Carnton's role is described in the novel "Widow of the South" by Robert Hicks.
We drove back to Nashville via a lovely village called Leiper's Fork, where we had lunch at the general store/cafe, and via a small part of the Natchez Trace Parkway which winds through lovely scenic country for 444 miles south from Nashville.
The day didn't start well - I followed most of the MUFC v Leicester game which was an early kick-off in the UK - breakfast time in Nashville.
We went 3-1 up just after half time and then proceeded to lose 5-3. Shambles.
We drove out to Franklin - a pleasant prosperous town a few miles south of the city, with lots of big historic (by US standards) houses. We stopped for a coffee and a walk about and then moved on to the nearby Carnton Plantation. On the way out of town we noticed this house which was Hallowe'en-ready about 6 weeks early...
Franklin was the site of a major civil war battle in November 1864 and resulted in a catastrophic defeat for the confederate forces. Carnton was commandeered by the confederates as a field hospital. Apparently the family who owned the house got heavily involved in the care of the wounded and subsequently created, on their estate and not too far from the house, a huge confederate war cemetery. The graves are grouped by state.
We drove back to Nashville via a lovely village called Leiper's Fork, where we had lunch at the general store/cafe, and via a small part of the Natchez Trace Parkway which winds through lovely scenic country for 444 miles south from Nashville.
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