Haunted U.S. Battlefields: Ghosts, Hauntings, and Eerie Events from America's Fields of Honor

by Mary Beth Crain

Overview

Do places where violent deaths occur somehow absorb the horror, only to conjure up images that haunt the living for generations to come? Many people believe that this can indeed happen; above all, in the context of that manmade phenomenon that reaps so great a toll in so short a time: War. Haunted U.S. Battlefields takes us on a spine-tingling tour of America's most legendary spectral scenes of human struggle—from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, from the Indian Wars to World War II and beyond.

As America's bloodiest conflict, the Civil War has yielded the greatest number of ghostly sightings. Hence, most of the twenty-five battlefield legends this book relates are from this era—whether the myriad strange spectral happenings associated with Gettysburg, or this war's lesser known but equally tragic events.

Summing up the eerie essence of wartime scenes across America—many of which today host popular ghost tours—Haunted U.S. Battlefields is a must for students of the paranormal, Civil War buffs, and all others interested in a spine-chilling realm of military history that the history books don't dare tell.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762751716
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/21/2008
Series:	Haunted
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	683 KB

About the Author

Mary Beth Crain is a journalist, editor and author whose personal memoir, A Widow, A Chihuahua and Harry Truman (HarperSanFrancisco, 2000) was a Los Angeles Times bestseller, and whose book, Guardian Angels (Running Press, 2004) has sold over 150,000 copies. A long-time believer, through personal experience, in the paranormal, as well as a Civil War buff, Mary Beth has thoroughly enjoyed researching and writing Haunted U.S. Battlefields, and hopes to meet a military ghost or two one of these days.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction     viii
The French and Indian War     1
Ticonderoga and the Haunting of Duncan Campbell     2
The Ghosts of Beardslee Castle     9
The Revolutionary War     16
Patrick Ferguson: Ghost King of the Mountain?     17
The Ghost Rider of Chadds Ford     26
The Hessians Are Coming, the Hessians Are Coming     32
The War of 1812     40
Fort Erie or Fort Eerie?     41
The Jilted Lover of Mongaugon     49
The Civil War     55
The Ghost Rider of Little Round Top     56
A Veritable Ghost Town: Four Famous Gettysburg Haunts     64
The Ghosts of the Bloody Lane     76
Old Green Eyes     83
Ghosts of the Siege     91
General Beauregard Is Not at Rest     100
Neither Is Henry Wirz     107
The Creepy Contraband of William Clarke Quantrill     114
The Haunted Ozarks     120
The Alamo     127
Spirits, Spirits, Spirits Everywhere     128
Ghosts in the Gift Shop     137
The Chapel of Sorrows     144
Little Bighorn     150
TheStone House and Other Mysteries     151
General Custer and the Ghost Dance     160
Some Stories from Where Americans Fought Abroad     169
The Restless Spirits of Normandy Beach     170
The Ghosts of Corregidor     179
The Ghosts of Pearl Harbor     186
The Organ-Playing Ghost Who Saved Two Yanks     193
Selected Bibliography     196
About the Author     198