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Franklin's Civil War Tour

By Gray Line Tennessee

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Highlights

  • Battlefield where Union & Confederate armies fought

  • Legends & stories of Carter House, a Civil War command post

  • Still-standing, bullet-riddled walls of area homes

  • Visit to a plantation used as both hospital & burial ground

  • Lunch on your own in Franklin

About this activity

What's included, what's not

  • What's included

    Guided tour of battlegrounds at Carter House & Carnton Plantation

  • What's included

    Roundtrip transportation with hotel pickup

  • What's included

    Live narration in English

  • What's excluded

    Meals, snacks, and beverages

Know Before You Book

  • Children 3 and younger are complimentary.

  • Hotel pickup is usually 30 minutes prior to booked tour start time.

What you can expect

Explore historic sites of The Battle of Franklin, the five bloodiest hours of the Civil War. This quaint town of Franklin, Tennessee, harkens back to a time before the harrowing fight between the Union and Confederate armies. Hearing the unique stories of heroism at the Carter House, Lotz House, and Carnton Plantation, you will soon appriciate the efforts of everyone who lived here in 1864, elite sociey of immigrant.

Understand what it took to survive the fighting, attend to the 9,500 casualties, and reconstruct citizens' homes and some semblance their lives before the battle.

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  • Nashville TN 37201

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  • Nashville TN

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