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The Carter cotton gin house, the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of the Battle of Franklin, stood about 80 yards east of Columbia Pike. General Adams, Cleburne, and Granbury were killed near here. The weatherboarded frame structure was 36 feet square, with massive 24 by 36 inch poplar sills to carry the weight of the heavy gin machinery. The sills rested on 8-foot-high stone pillars, providing headroom for horses that powered the gin by walking in a circle and pulling a boom pole. Federal forces stripped the structure for materials to use in the breastworks, which stood about 20 yards in front of the gin and had deep outer ditches.
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Franklin, Tennessee · United States
