Hear Hear!
I donate to the private McGavock CSA Cemetary at Carnton myself....money well spent.
Did you read they tore down the old Pizza Hut a block from Carter House? YIPPIE! Finally we are getting the land back.
Besides, they kindly moved to a newer digs at the new Target/Kroger center at Mack Hatcher and Columbia. Talk about huge. And there is almost no one there when I go shopping. Unlike the Wal-Mart at Cool Springs where it takes an hour just to find parking.
As things on Columbia start going away (like the factories that are now mostly empty) we need to reclaim more land to preserve if we can. But even I'm a hypocrite. My apartment sits just north of the Harpeth (near the Peoples Church across from the Franklin YMCA at Mack Hatcher and South Royal Oaks) and we had a small garrison that was staged here. But then again about every piece of land around us was part of the battle.
The wife and I visited Chattanooga recently (believe it or not we'd never been there) and I was surprised about how much I didn't know that the battle their lead almost directly to the ones here in Franklin and Nashville. I never got too detailed in the Civil War beyond battle site here, one there, etc. It was very interesting.
And, yes, I saw Rock City! lol Good to hear from you again. Merry Christmas to you and your family.