The McGavocks of Carnton Plantation: A Southern History

AUTHOR: Lochlainn Seabrook.
ILLUSTRATOR-PHOTOGRAPHER: Lochlainn Seabrook.
INTRODUCTION: Dr. Michael R. Bradley (Chaplain SCV Camp #155, and award-winning author of Tullahoma: The 1863 Campaign for the Control of Middle Tennessee).  
FOREWORD: Sue A. Thompson (Master Curator and Decorative Arts Director, Lotz House Museum, Franklin, Tennessee).
CONTENT: adult nonfiction.
SUBJECTS: McGavock family history, Confederate history, Franklin Tennessee history, American Civil War, genealogy, Victorian Southern society, plantation life.
ILLUSTRATED: yes (b/w).
SIZE: 5.5” x 8.5”.
LENGTH: 1,050 pages.
COVER: paperback/perfect bound/gloss finish; hardcover/case laminate/matte finish.
PUBLISHER: Sea Raven Press.
ISBN: 978-0-9827700-8-5 (paperback).
ISBN: 978-1-943737-54-3 (hardcover).
 
FULL DESCRIPTION
This comprehensive exploration of the Celtic-American McGavocks and their beautiful Franklin, Tennessee, home is a “must read” for anyone interested in not only Carnton Plantation, but in the American Civil War, the South, and Tennessee history. In The McGavocks of Carnton Plantation, Southern historian, former Carnton docent, McGavock relation, and award-winning Tennessee author Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook digs deep into the history of the McGavocks, providing facts, material, and topics that you will not find in any other book or on any historical tour.
 
Included in this monumental 1,050-page work is a detailed history of Carnton Plantation and her occupants from 1700 to the present; a “you-are-there” tour of the grounds and the mansion, top to bottom, interior and exterior; an in-depth discussion of Lincoln’s War, slavery, the Confederate States of America, and the Battles of Franklin II and Nashville, as the McGavocks and other loyal Confederates saw them; a complete McGavock family tree from their earliest known ancestor in Scotland; a complete Winder family tree from their earliest known ancestor in England; a royal European McGavock family tree back to Robert the Bruce King of Scotland; a brief history of Company H Twentieth Tennessee Infantry; well-researched citations with 1,700 footnotes, a 1,000-book bibliography, and an exhaustive index.
 
The McGavocks of Carnton Plantation also contains hundreds of illustrations, maps, photos, diagrams, and drawings, all chronicling the lives, customs, and beliefs of this fascinating Confederate clan. The longest and most detailed book ever written on the McGavocks, most of this material has never been published before, and Colonel Seabrook’s insights into the Southern (as opposed to the Northern) perspective of the Great War of 1861 will provide readers with a new and illuminating view of Nineteenth-Century life at Carnton.
 
Penned from the traditional South’s point of view and written with a love for Dixie, reverence for the Confederacy, and respect for the McGavocks, this massive and important Civil War Sesquicentennial study is a one-of-a-kind book that is well on its way to becoming a Southern classic. Seven years in the making, The McGavocks of Carnton Plantation is one that every true Southerner, every lover of liberty, and every student of history will want in their library.
 
The Introduction is by Dr. Michael R. Bradley, Chaplain SCV Camp #155 and award-winning author. The Foreword is by Sue A. Thompson, Master Curator and Decorative Arts Director, Lotz House Museum, Franklin, Tennessee. Available in paperback and hardcover.
 
NOTE: The McGavocks of Carnton Plantation currently has 10 five star reviews on Amazon.
 
CUSTOMER REVIEWS
ETSY REVIEW, 5 OUT OF 5 STARS ★★★★★: "Great book and well packaged"- CURT (verified purchase)
 
EBAY REVIEW, 5 OUT OF 5 STARS ★★★★★: “Communication with Sea Raven Press was prompt and understandable, shipping was fast, and Lochlainn Seabrook's book on the McGavocks is beautiful! Will definitely buy from SRP again.” - SHIFTYLITTLENITA (verified purchase)
 
AMAZON REVIEW, 5 OUT OF 5 STARS ★★★★★: “I absolutely love this book! I reread it every so often. Carrie McGavock must have been quite a woman!” - ANDIE L. GARCIA (verified purchase)
 
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