It sounds like your view is very near to that of Tod Carter when he saw his home for the first time in 3 years. He only made it there to die.... as I recall from the tour, he was mortally wounded in the garden, and his family found him after the battle and brought him to the house, where he died several days later.
I took Jr G to the Carter house after the re-burial of the civil war soldier last Oct. The funeral was wonderful and moving, the tour of the Carter house was probably too graphic for a 10 year old.
Tod was mortally wounded to the west out near Battle ave and West Carters Creek near Smith's brigade
fascinating story
amazing how we drive thru all this every day isn't it?
even my kids are learning where everything took place...they always knew the spot at Shy’s Hill where we used to live in town (Music City) and a very young Colonel Shy was bayoneted to the tree by errant sadistic Federals
i walked my American Bully just now at the path at Winstead
the Winstead plantation is another cool story...he left his estate to his slaves
never gonna hear about that from the NAACP are ya?
I grew up on Mississippi battlefields as a lad and we all dug up stuff from time to time so I've been living this forever...I bet where I live now has some history since one CSA Corps moved up and down this lane that day and not to mention all the skirmishes for 4 years...Williamson county saw a lot of minor action too
history rant/off