This comprehensive exploration of the Celtic-American McGavocks and
their beautiful Franklin, Tennessee, home is a "must read" for anyone
interested in not only Carnton Plantation, but in the American Civil
War, the South, and Tennessee history. In The McGavocks of Carnton
Plantation, award-winning Southern historian, former Carnton docent,
McGavock relation, and award-winning Tennessee author Colonel Lochlainn
Seabrook digs deep into the history of the McGavocks, providing facts,
material, and topics that you will not find in any other book or on any
historical tour.
Included in this monumental 1,050-page volume is a detailed history of
Carnton Plantation and her occupants from 1700 to the present; a
"you-are-there" tour of the grounds and the mansion, top to bottom,
interior and exterior; an in-depth discussion of Lincoln's War, slavery,
the Confederate States of America, and the Battles of Franklin II and
Nashville, as the McGavocks and other loyal Confederates experienced
them; a complete McGavock family tree from their earliest known ancestor
in Scotland; a complete Winder family tree from their earliest known
ancestor in England; a royal European McGavock family tree back to
Robert the Bruce King of Scotland; a brief history of Company H
Twentieth Tennessee Infantry; well-researched citations with 1,700
footnotes, a 1,000-book bibliography, and an exhaustive index. The book
also contains hundreds of illustrations, maps, photos, diagrams, and
drawings, all chronicling the lives, customs, and beliefs of this
fascinating Confederate clan.
The longest and most detailed book ever written on the McGavocks, a
majority of this material has never been published before, and Col.
Seabrook's insights into the South's (as opposed to the North's)
perspective of the War for Southern Independence will provide readers
with a new and illuminating view of Nineteenth-Century life at Carnton.
Penned from the traditional South's point of view and written with a
love for Dixie, reverence for the Confederacy, and respect for the
McGavocks, this massive and important Civil War Sesquicentennial study
is a one-of-a-kind book that is well on its way to becoming a Southern
classic. Seven years in the making, The McGavocks of Carnton
Plantation is one that every true Southerner, every lover of liberty,
and every student of history will want in their library. The
Introduction is by Dr. Michael R. Bradley, Chaplain SCV Camp #155 and
award-winning author. The Foreword is by Sue A. Thompson, Master Curator
and Decorative Arts Director, Lotz House Museum, Franklin, Tennessee.
Available in paperback and hardcover.
World-acclaimed Civil War scholar Lochlainn Seabrook, a descendant of
the families of Alexander H. Stephens and John S. Mosby, is the most
prolific and well respected pro-South writer in America today. The
leading popularizer of Civil War history, he is a recipient of the
prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal and the author and
editor of nearly 100 educational books, enlightening titles that have
introduced hundreds of thousands to facts left out of our mainstream
books. Known as the "new Shelby Foote," Colonel Seabrook is a
seventh-generation Kentuckian of Appalachian heritage and the sixth
great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford. He has a forty-five year
background in American and Southern history and is the author of the
international blockbuster Everything You Were Taught About the Civil
War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!
Col. Seabrook's other titles include: Abraham Lincoln Was a Liberal,
Jefferson Davis Was a Conservative; Lincoln's War: The Real Cause, the
Real Winner, the Real Loser; All We Ask is to be Let Alone: The Southern
Secession Fact Book; The Bittersweet Bond: Race Relations in the Old
South; The Great Yankee Coverup; Confederacy 101; Slavery 101;
Confederate Flag Facts.
