Having being raised in Ohio, we were taught about the Civil War between the States. Having been living in Tennessee for over 20 years, I have been living on the land that actually fought battles of the Civil War. Walking distance from my house is farmland that was used as a campsite for the Confederates before they marched north to fight the Union. In Franklin, TN was a plantation called the Carnton House. It was used as a field hospital to take care of the wounded. They are restoring the house to the period of the 1860's. In some of the rooms they had the doors off of the hinges and used them as operating tables next to the windows. You can see the footprints of the Dr, and nurses stained in blood in the hardwood floors. Actually see where their apron was, and blood staining the floor below. They would amputate legs and arms and had them stacked up to the ceiling in the smoke house where they cooked. Cooking was done in a separate building next to the house. It was very interesting. Mrs. Carnton, kept excellent records and had a booklet with all of the men who died, and were buried on the property, had them marked , name, and State they represented. It was amazing to me because they lived the war. Also, during the Battle of Franklin, the Carter house, there are bullet holes visible ,as they tell the story on how this house was caught in the middle of a fight. When family would come to visit, that is one of the places I would take my family. It is apart of our history and it makes me look differently at what I learned in school, long ago.