Carter House

Tod Carter fought three years across the South and was shot almost on his own doorstep. A captain in the 20th Tennessee Infantry, he came home for the first time in more than three years when the army reached Franklin, and fell wounded in the assault of November 30, 1864. Found the next morning, he was carried into the family house, lived a few more hours and died on December 2. The house and outbuildings still show more than a thousand bullet holes, and a cotton gin Fountain Carter built became a landmark of the fight.

What the plaque says

Carter House Built 1830 by Fountain Branch Carter, and in use by three generations of his family. Here was command post of Maj. Gen. Jacob D. Cox, Federal field commander of Schofield's delaying action. The hottest fighting took place just east and south nearby, Capt. Theodoric Carter, CSA, a son of the family, was mortally wounded.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Carnton — 1.3 mi
  The McGavock farm in Franklin, worked by 44 enslaved people in 1860, that became the largest field hospital of the Battle of Franklin.
• Fort Negley — 17 mi
  The largest inland stone fort of the Civil War, built in 1862 on St. Cloud Hill by more than 2,700 conscripted Black laborers, hundreds of whom died.
• National Museum of African American Music — 18 mi
  A downtown Nashville museum, opened in 2021, tracing gospel, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and hip-hop through Black history from 1619 to 2016.
• Ryman Auditorium — 18 mi
  The 1892 brick tabernacle in downtown Nashville that was the Grand Ole Opry's home from 1943 to 1974, now a National Historic Landmark and working concert hall.

More markers nearby

• Lotz House — steps away
• Battle Ground Academy — 0.2 mi
• St. Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi
• Chickasaw Treaty Council — 0.5 mi