Caroline "Carrie" Winder McGavock (née Winder; September 9, 1829 – February 22, 1905) was an American slave owner and the caretaker of the McGavock Confederate Cemetery at Carnton, a historic plantation complex in Franklin, Tennessee.
1857),[6] with only two surviving to adulthood,[3] a son, Winder McGavock (1857–1907),[4][7] and a daughter, "Hattie", who married George Cowan.
[9][10] In December 1848, Reddick was given to Carrie as a wedding present, working for her as a personal house slave at Carnton and at St. Bridget, the McGavock's sugar plantation in Louisiana.
[2] Reddick worked for four generations of the McGavock family at Carnton as a nurse, maid, midwife, and head of the household staff.
[6] She led the efforts, supervising the logistics, and ordering her enslaved African-American workers to assist.
On the morning after the battle, five Confederate generals lay dead on the wide gallery of the house.
She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George L. Cowan, on the Lewisburg Pike,[3] near Franklin, Tennessee, on February 22, 1905, age 76.