Carnton Plantation Ghost Stories: True Tales of the Unexplained from Tennessee's Most Haunted Civil War House! [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Lochlainn Seabrook (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2009

Used as a Confederate field hospital during the Battle of Franklin II in the fall of 1864, Carnton Plantation played a vital role in the American War for Southern Independence. Nearly 2,000 Confederate soldiers died in and around the home, leaving a psychic imprint of death, violence, fear, pain, and terror etched into its very walls. The result is that today Carnton is not only one of the nation’s most important historic homes, it is also Tennessee’s most haunted Civil War house. Southern historian and award-winning Tennessee author Lochlainn Seabrook has assembled over a dozen authentic ghost stories associated with Carnton Plantation in an absorbing book that includes a brief history of the home, a Southern look at the Civil War, the family tree of its founders the McGavocks, over 100 illustrations, a “Ghostly Glossary,” a comprehensive index and bibliography, suggestions on how to help preserve America’s unique Southern heritage, and a complete list of the dead buried at the McGavock Confederate Cemetery in Franklin, Tennessee. Written for all ages, “Carnton Plantation Ghost Stories” is entertaining yet educational, diverting yet gripping, a book that everyone from ghost-hunters to Civil War buffs will want on their shelf. It’s one of our top sellers, not only at bookstores, but at Civil War sites, historic house gift shops, and museum stores. Seabrook, a former Carnton tour guide and a relative of the McGavock and Winder families, is the winner of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal, awarded by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Known as the “American Robert Graves” after his celebrated English cousin, Seabrook is the sixth great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford and the author of over thirty popular adult and children’s books, including “The McGavocks of Carnton Plantation: A Southern History”; “The Quotable Robert E. Lee”; “The Unquotable Abraham Lincoln”; “Lincolnology: The Real Abraham Lincoln Revealed in His Own Words”; “The Quotable Jefferson Davis”; “A Rebel Born: A Defense of Nathan Bedford Forrest”; “Abraham Lincoln: The Southern View”;“Nathan Bedford Forrest: Southern Hero, American Patriot”; and “The Caudills: An Etymological, Ethnological, and Genealogical Study.”

Product Details

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: Sea Raven Press; 2nd edition (June 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0982189966
• ISBN-13: 978-0982189962
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,570,342 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money, June 21, 2011

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This review is from: Carnton Plantation Ghost Stories: True Tales of the Unexplained from Tennessee's Most Haunted Civil War House! (Paperback)

I am glad I did not purchase this book. I opened it with interest in a bookstore and discovered a political rant about slavery and the "South". This guy goes as far as to say that the enslaved people of African descent in the U.S. were not slaves but "servants." Maybe he would enjoy being my servant and I could force him to live where I deem appropriate, not allow him to leave and sell him when I no longer require his "servitude." He also makes judgments on how history is taught in the "North," claiming that it is inaccurate without citing his source of this information. If the title of your book refers directly to ghosts and the paranormal, don't hide your one-sided, bigoted political and racial prejudices in a chapter that pretends to be relevant to the subject. (I won't elaborate on the typographical errors that I saw in my brief glance.) This country will be a better place when narrow-minded people like this "author" no longer exist.