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Acknowledgments
Thanks to Cathy Adams, Fredericksburg Hampton Inn & Suites, Fredericksburg, Virginia; Marilyn and Elliott Bardsley; Amanda Beck; Jeff Belanger; Jeff Campbell; Paul Chiles; Guy W. Condra; Ray and Sharon Couch; Fiona Crawley; Laine Crosby; Gretchen Dugan; The Kenmore Inn, Fredericksburg, Virginia; Dale Kacz-marek; Brett Keener; Fredericksburg Convention and Visitor’s Center; Fredericksburg Police Department; Gettysburg & Northern Railroad; Rosemary Ellen Guiley; Jennifer Henise; Thomas Long-street; Frank May; Gregg and Carol McCrary; Jackie Mullen; Helen Myers; Jack and Maria Palladino; The Cashtown Inn; Sharad Patel, Windsor Hotel, Americus, Georgia; Deb Pederson; Darla Peightal; Dale Phillips; Greg Platzer; Katherine Ramsland; Ed Raus; Jeff Ritzmann; Jennifer Suroviec; L. B. Taylor; Troy Taylor; Kyle Weaver; Patty Wilson; Terry Winschel; and Tom Van Winkle.
Index
Alexander, E. P., 12, 48, 92
Alexander, John, 225, 233
Anderson, George W., 216
Anderson, Richard, 152–153
Andersonville (Georgia prison), 3, 233
described, 200–203
EVP findings, 205
ghosts, 203–205
Providence Spring, 201, 205
Raiders, 201–202, 205
Regulators, 201–202
Stockade Branch, 200, 201, 204, 205
Andersonville National Cemetery, 202, 204
Andersonville National Historical Site, 203
Antietam (Sharpsburg), 3, 167
battle described, 46–49
Bloody Lane (Sunken Road), 47, 48, 53–54
Cornfield, 47
East Woods, 47
Harpers Ferry, 47, 48
West Woods, 47
Antietam ghosts, 164
Bloody Lane (Sunken Road), 53–54
Pry House, 49–52
Sharpsburg town, 52
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 52
Appomattox, 214
described, 219, 220, 223–224
ghosts, 224
Armistead, Lewis A., 92–93
Atlanta Campaign. See Kennesaw Mountain entries
Baker, Edward, 229
Ballou, Sullivan, 20–21
Barksdale, William, 56
Barlow, Francis, 155
Battle Cry of Freedom (McPherson), 173
Beauregard, P. G. T., 11, 27–29, 217
Beck, Amanda, 234–235
Bee, Barnard, 12–13
Belle Isle (prison), 134, 135
Berg, Laura, 197–198
Blue & Gray Magazine’s Guide to Haunted Places of the Civil War, 21–22
Bobb, John H., 115, 116, 117
Bobb, Selina, 115
Booth, John Wilkes, 228, 232, 234
Boyd, Belle, 233
Bradway family, 116
Bragg, Braxton
Chattanooga, 125, 127–128
Chickamauga, 118–119, 124
Brown, Alan, 190, 205
Buell, Don Carlos, 28
Buford, John, 88
Bull Run. See Manassas entries
Burns, Ken, 20
Burnside, Ambrose E., 48, 125
Fredericksburg, 55, 57–62, 78
Spotsylvania, 154
Wilderness, the, 141–144
Burr, Aaron, 221
Butler, Benjamin, 134
Calhoun, John C., 225
Campbell, Jeff, 161
Carrera, Cesar, 231
Carter, Annie, 189
Carter, Theodrick “Tod,” 188, 190
Chamberlain, Joshua L., 91
Chancellorsville, 2, 62, 87, 124, 146, 147
battle described, 78–82
Chancellor House, 79, 81
Hazel Grove, 81, 85–86
Salem Church, 81
Chancellorsville Battlefield Sites (Harrison), 83, 85
Chancellorsville ghosts
Bullock House site, 82–83
EVP findings, 86
Hazel Grove, 85–86
Last Bivouac site, 84–85
Chattanooga, 118–119, 172
battle described, 124–128
Brown’s Ferry, 125
Craven House, 126
Lookout Mountain, 119, 124, 125, 126, 128–132
Missionary Ridge, 119, 124–127, 132–133
Orchard Knob, 125
Ringgold Gap, 128
Tunnel Hill, 126–127
Chattanooga ghosts
EVP findings, 132, 133
Lookout Mountain, 128–132
Missionary Ridge, 132–133
Cheatham, Benjamin F., 175
Chickamauga, 3, 31, 124, 128, 130, 173, 179, 183
battle described, 118–119
Snodgrass Hill, 119, 122–123
Chickamauga ghosts, 119–120
Florida Monument, 122
Old Green Eyes, 120–122
Snodgrass Hill, 122–123
Wilder Tower, 121
Women in White, 120
Churchill, Winston, 231
Civil War, The (Burns), 20
Civil War Ghosts of Virginia (Taylor), 20, 136, 167–169, 223
Cleburne, Patrick
Chattanooga, 126–127
Franklin, 184, 185–186, 190–191
ghost of, 190–191
Kennesaw Mountain, 175
Clem, John, 30–31
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 194–195
Clinch, Nicholas, 216, 217
Cohen, Daniel, 204
Cold Harbor, 219
battle described, 166–167
Cold Harbor ghosts, 167–171
“Community Spirits” (Krishnamurthy), 221
Conklin, J. B., 229
Cooke, John Esten, 21
Coolidge, Calvin, 230
Coolidge, Grace, 230
Couch, Ray, 111–114, 207–208
Couch, Sharon, 111–112
Crosby, Chris, 177–178
Crosby, Laine, 82–85, 177–178
Dahlgren, Ulric, 135–136
Dandridge, John, 67
Daughters of the Confederacy, 195
Davis, Ann, 197
Davis, Jefferson, 43, 135, 231
capture and imprisonment, 44
wartime decisions, 25, 38, 87, 108
Davis, Varina, 44
Davis, Winnie, 44
DeBolt, Margaret Wayt, 213–214
De Peyster, J. Watts, Jr., 24
Dodson, John, 221
Drum
, Joan McFarland, 42–44
Eben, Mary, 231
Elmira (New York prison), 3
Emancipation Proclamation, 49
Evans, Nathan G., 12
Ewell, Richard, 90, 91, 137, 138, 140–143
Farrell, Joe, 4
Felix, Richard, 4–5
Ford, Henry, 216
Fort Donelson, 25, 193
Fort Henry, 25, 193
Fort Leslie McNair ghost, 233–234
Fort Magruder, 37
Fort McAllister ghosts, 215–218
Fort Monroe, 36, 38, 134
Fort Monroe ghosts
Davis, Varina, 44
Grant, Ulysses, 43–44
Lincoln, Abraham, 43
Quarters Number One, 42–43
White Lady (Light Lady), 44–45
Fort Oglethorpe, 121
Fort Pulaski, 206
ghosts, 211–215
Fort Sumter, 11, 27, 212
Franklin
battle described, 183–189
Carnton Plantation, 188–191
Carter House, 186–190
Franklin, William B., 60
Franklin ghosts
Carnton Cemetery, 191
Carnton Plantation, 190–191
Carter House, 189–190
EVP findings, 191
Frazer, Philip, 151
Fredericksburg, 2–3, 83, 152, 154, 157
battle described, 55–62
Chatham, 56
Dead Horse Hill, 60
Fair Grounds, 61
Marye’s Heights, 2, 59, 61–62, 63, 78, 81, 167
Prospect Hill, 60
Slaughter Pen, 61
Smithfield Plantation, 60
Stafford Heights, 56
Stratton House, 62
Sunken Road, 61, 62, 159, 167
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, 146
Fredericksburg ghosts, 62–63
Caroline Street Café footprints, 64–65
Caroline Street house, 63–64
Chimneys, the, 69–74
EVP findings, 73–74
Kenmore Inn, 74–77
Lady in White at Chatham Manor, 6, 223
Nicodemus, 71–74
silverware flying off tables, 6
Smythe’s Cottage, 65–66
St. George’s Episcopal Church, 67–69
Sunken Road, 159
Fredericksburg National Cemetery, 83
French, Leland, 116–117
Friends of the Wilderness Battlefield, 146
Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, 71
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, 71–72
Fuller, William Allen, 178
Furqueron, James R., 224
Gallie, John B., 215
ghost of, 217–218
Gartrell, Lucy, 181–182
Gartrell, Mary Annie, 180–182
Georgia Memorial Association, 179
Getty, George, 138, 139–140
Gettysburg, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 19, 82, 110, 118, 154, 170, 183, 197, 205, 214
Benner’s Hill, 91
Big Round Top, 90–91
Cashtown Inn, 9, 88, 93, 102–103
Cemetery Ridge, 89, 92, 167
Culp’s Hill, 89, 90, 91
Devil’s Den, 5, 90
East Cemetery Hill, 91
Lady Farm, 91
Little Round Top, 90–91, 92, 100–101
Oak Ridge, 89
Peach Orchard, 90, 101
Pickett’s Charge, 7, 92–93
Seminary Ridge, 89, 92
Wheatfield, 6, 90, 101
Gettysburg (movie), 7
Gettysburg Address, 9, 110
Gettysburg ghosts, 10, 93–94, 160, 164
campfires, phantom, 6, 149
Cashtown Inn, 9, 102–103
Devil’s Den, 5
EVP findings, 9, 102–106
Gettysburg & Northern Railroad engine house, 103
Gettysburg College Blue Boy of Stevens Hall, 97–99
Gettysburg College elevator, 94–97
Ghosts of Gettysburg Candlelight Walking Tours HQ, 103–106
Kuhn’s Brickyard, 104
Phantom Battalion/Regiment, 6, 100–101
Pickett’s Charge, cold spots in field of, 7
Spangler’s Spring Woman in White, 99–100
Wheatfield, 6
Gettysburg National Cemetery, 227
“Ghost of Lookout Mountain, The,” 131–132
Ghosts, overview of
channeling, defined, 72
Civil War, reasons for associations with, 2–4
ghost, defined, 1–2
EVP, described, vii, 9–10
hauntings, types of, 5–7
linger, why spirits, 7–9
scientific explanations, 4–5
warp, defined, 95
Ghosts: Washington’s Most Famous Ghost Stories (Alexander), 225
Ghosts of America, 204
Ghosts of Fort Monroe, The (Polonsky and Drum), 42–44
Ghosts of Franklin (Thessin), 189
Ghosts of Gettysburg (Nesbitt), 94, 95, 98
Ghosts of Gettysburg Candlelight Walking Tours, 103–106, 234
Ghosts of Lookout Mountain (Hillhouse), 130–131
Ghosts of the Southern Tennessee Valley (Kotarski), 121, 122, 128–130
Gibbon, John, 60
Glass, Andrew, 115
Glassel, John, 69
Glory (movie), 214
Glover, Jane Porter, 179
Gordon, Eleanor “Nellie” Lytle Kinzie, 209–211
Gordon, John B., 41, 53, 145
Gordon, William Washington I, 209
Gordon, William Washington II (“Willie” ), 209–210
ghost of, 210–211
Gorham, Sanford, 180
Goulder, Grace, 194–195
Granbury, Hiram B., 186
Grant, Julia, 228
Grant, Ulysses S., 172, 173, 228
Appomattox, 219, 220
Chattanooga, 124–125, 127–128
Cold Harbor, 166, 167, 219
ghost of, 43–44
Petersburg, 219–220
portrait of, in Fredericksburg, 66
as president, 230
Shiloh, 25–29
Spotsylvania, 152–154, 157, 161, 166, 219
Vicksburg, 107–110, 220
Wilderness, the, 137, 140–142, 145, 146, 152
Green, Ben, 136
Green, Mary, 179
Gregg, Maxcy, 60
Guide to Historic Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Petersburg, 224
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen, 159
Hall, Norman J., 58
Hancock, Winfield S.
Spotsylvania, 154–155
Wilderness, the, 140, 141, 143–144, 154–155
Haney, Mr., 198–199
Harris, Ira, 228
Harris, Isham G., 26
Harrison, Noel, 83, 85
Hartsuff, G. L., 222
HauntedAmericaTours.com, 122
Haunted Georgia (Brown), 205
Haunted Places to Go, 116
Haunted Tennessee (Brown), 190
Hauntings and Horrors (Cohen), 204
Hays, Alexander, 140
Hazen, William B., 215–216
Hazlett, Charles, 18
Henry, Judith, 13
Herndon, Brodie, 69
Heth, Henry, 88
Hill, A. P.
Antietam, 48
Chancellorsville, 80
Gettysburg, 88, 102
Peninsula, the, 39, 41
Wilderness, the, 140
Hill, D. H., 41, 53
Hillhouse, Larry, 130–131
Historic Savannah Foundation, 207
Holzer, Hans, 1–2, 197, 198
Hood, John Bell
Chickamauga, 183
Franklin, 183–184, 188, 189
Gettysburg, 183
Kennesaw Mountain, 174
Manassas, Second, 16, 17
Peninsula Campa
ign, 39
Hooker, Joseph, 78–81, 83, 124–126
Howard, Mary Elizabeth, 115, 116
Howard, O. O., 210
Howard, Stephen, 115, 116
Howell, Margaret, 44
Huey, Pennock, 86
Hunt, Henry, 58
Hunt, Valerie V., 3
Infinite Mind (Hunt), 3
Iverson, Alfred, 89
Jackson, Andrew, 43
Jackson, Thomas J. “Stonewall,” 46, 145, 147
Antietam, 47
Chancellorsville, 79–85, 147
Fredericksburg, 60, 61
ghost horse of, 147–148
Manassas, First, 12–12
Manassas, Second, 14, 15–17, 18
Peninsula Campaign, 38–40
Jacobs, Ralph, 162
Johnson, Andrew, 232
Johnson, Lady Bird, 230
Johnson, Leonard, 193
Johnson, Lyndon B., 230
Johnson’s Island (Ohio prison), 3
Confederate Cemetery, 194, 195
described, 192–194
ghosts, 194–196
Johnston, Albert Sidney, 25, 26–27, 34
Johnston, Joseph E.
Kennesaw Mountain, 172–174
Manassas, First, 11
Peninsula, the, 37–38
Vicksburg, 108
Jones, John Paul, 67
Journal of Near-Death Studies, 5
Jurgenson, Frederick, 9
Kearny, Philip, 24
Keenan, Peter, 86
Kennesaw Mountain
battle described, 172–176
Big Kennesaw Mountain, 173
Cheatham Hill, 175, 177, 178
Dead Angle, 175–176, 177
Gilgal Church, 173
Kolb’s Farm, 174, 179
Little Kennesaw Mountain, 174
Lost Mountain, 173
Marietta, 173, 176, 179–181
New Hope Church (“Hell Hole”), 173
Pickett’s Mill, 173
Pigeon Hill, 174, 177
Pine Mountain, 173
Rocky Face Ridge, 173
Kennesaw Mountain ghosts, 176–177
Cheatham Hill, 178
Dead Angle, 177
EVP findings, 177
Marietta City Cemetery, 180–182
Marietta Confederate Cemetery, 179–180
Women in Black, 180–182
Key, Francis Scott, 226
Key, Philip Barton, 226–227
Kilpatrick, Judson, 134–135
Kitzmiller, Mrs., 104, 105
Knoxville, 125, 128
Kolb, Peter, 174
Kotarski, Georgianna C., 120–121, 122, 128–130
Krishnamurthy, Kiran, 221
Lacy, Beverley Tucker, 147
Lacy, J. Horace, 146, 147
Ladies’ Aid Society, 179
Lafayette, Marquis de, 146
Lanier, Gina, 122
Lee, Henry “Light-Horse Harry,” 146