Gettysburg Battlefield

These were three days of the bloodiest fighting of the American Civil War and have left a forever memory in the people and a country. However, since the last shot was fired and the last men fell, there have been reports from the fields of the fallen. Sometimes you can hear the howling and screaming of the soldiers when you walk past at night by Willoughby Run, a small stream that cuts through the middle of the town. Every house that was there at the time of battle, and is still there today, is said to be haunted. According to "The Ghosts of Gettysburg"author, Mark Nesbitt, Gettysburg is, acre for acre, the most haunted place in America. Experts attribute that to the fact that thousands of young men, 15 - 17 - 19, have been tragically and traumatically ripped from life through the ravages we've come to know as The American Civil War.
Very many ghosts of civil war soldiers have been seen here including entire battles being observed by witnesses.
The fields of Gettysburg were littered with the bodies of the dead, slowly decaying in the heat of the Pennsylvania summer. The people of the town were also left with thousands of the wounded to attend to and homes and businesses were quickly turned into field hospitals. "Wounded men were brought into our houses and laid side-by-side in our halls and rooms," one local woman recalled. "Carpets were so saturated with blood as to be unfit for further use. Wall were bloodstained, as well as books that were used as pillows".
The secong day of the battle is known as "The Devil's Den". Most everyone, in their letters home described the rocks as a "desolate and ghostly place" and "ominous". Many others thought the rocky outcropping marked an entrance to a cavern, although no cave exists. However, if you were to take a look yourself, you would see why they thought this. The rock are piled so high that the crevices seem to plunge down into total darkness. A legend of how this place got it's name says that there was a snake that would elude hunters, making it impossible to kill him. The snake was allegedly named "the devil" and the area of rocks was called his "den". No matter how this place got it's name it is said that it's been haunted even before the war. Below is a picture of the den today.

The Devils Den is a large patch of rocks where many Confederate sharpshooters took refuge in order to exact their death toll upon Union officers atop the hills of Little and Big Round Tops. The Little Round Top is an unimpressive hill overlooking the Devils Den and the wheatfield. One small group of men found themselves atop the Round Top, admiring the view as the sun began to set. A rustling of the leaves behind them alerted them to the presence of a stranger. From the brush emerged a rather haggard looking old man, dressed as a Union private. The man was filthy and smelled of sulfur, a key ingredient of the black powder used in 1863. He walked up to the men and as he handed them a few musket rounds, he said “Rough one today, eh boys?” He turned and walked away. As the re-enactors looked upon the musket rounds, they looked up to see the man had vanished. When they brought the rounds into town, they were authenticated as original rounds 130 years old! Many visitors have reported the smell of gunpowder, and have heard gunshots and screams from the Little Round Top over the years.
A ghost of General William Barksdale's dog has even been seen. The dog died while trying to give a message to another general. One of the bloodiest battle scenes during the war was the Wheatfield. On occasion you can still hear the war being fought. Sound of fire crackling, and a tin cup can be heard. A ghost horse can also be heard running towards you. Creepy!
I really love the story of the Gettysburg Battle and I hope you will to. It's filled with all kinds of ghosts and the feeling you get is so cool!