Randal McGavock was a Harvard educated lawyer who served one term as the mayor of Nashville in 1858 when he was 32. He had earlier taken a 20-month European tour and wrote a book about titled "A Tennesseean Abroad."
He was Lt.-Col. of the 10th Tennessee Infantry regiment and killed in 1863 at the Battle of Raymond in Mississippi.
Ms. Sheam contacted the Tennessee State Library and Archives which had received 8 volumes of his diaries in 1960,.but was missing the one from his early Civil War years. She and her husband flew to Nashville to donate the diary to the archives and visit historic sites associated with McGavock and his prominent family, including the Two River Mansion in Nashville and Carnton Plantation in Franklin.
--Old Secesh
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