Battle of Franklin

Living in Franklin, Tennessee, for over 25 years one does not easily
forget the Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1864. The Carnton house
which had 5 dead confederate generals dead on the front porch and the
Carter House now a museum with bullet holes easily seen in passing.
Recently they tore down the Pizza Hut and made it into a small park, a
reminder that the Cotton Gin there was a strategic fighting line on that
drastic day.

Across from the small park I the new County library where I checked out
the Simon Winchester books. Just to think books checked out from a place
once a battlefield where men were killed. A pause for thought.