Haunted Hospitals

[Ole Miss]

Shortly after the Battle of Shiloh, wounded Confederates were sent by rail to Oxford, MS and the University of Mississippi. The Lyceum, administrative, classroom and dormitory building, was converted to a military hospital. The campus was used for treating casualties of both sides till the end of the War. In fact a Confederate cemetery was established on campus which holds bodies of Federal and Confederate soldiers. Both the Lyceum and the cemetery still exist to this day
Regards
David

MS - Ole Miss Confederate Cemetery | Civil War Cemeteries: Where Valor Proudly Sleeps

There is a proposal by the University of Mississippi to move the Confederate Soldier Statue from the center of campus to the Confederate Cemetery on the South side of the campus. I thought I would post a few photos of the Cemetery for those who have not had the opportunity to visit Ole Miss...

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Civil War Commentary and Local History Featuring Starke Miller: The Lyceum – The Local Voice

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[Nathan Stuart]

Think one could reasonably expect some kinds of paranormal experiences (including extraordinary and inexplicable events) as more likely in those locations that were formerly used as battlefield hospitals - where so much human suffering and distress occurred.

 

[Kathy the history sleuth]

Shortly after the Battle of Shiloh, wounded Confederates were sent by rail to Oxford, MS and the University of Mississippi. The Lyceum, administrative, classroom and dormitory building, was converted to a military hospital. The campus was used for treating casualties of both sides till the end of the War. In fact a Confederate cemetery was established on campus which holds bodies of Federal and Confederate soldiers. Both the Lyceum and the cemetery still exist to this day
Regards
David

MS - Ole Miss Confederate Cemetery | Civil War Cemeteries: Where Valor Proudly Sleeps

There is a proposal by the University of Mississippi to move the Confederate Soldier Statue from the center of campus to the Confederate Cemetery on the South side of the campus. I thought I would post a few photos of the Cemetery for those who have not had the opportunity to visit Ole Miss...

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Civil War Commentary and Local History Featuring Starke Miller: The Lyceum – The Local Voice

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There is a similar situation in Madison Wisconsin.


To accommodate up to 5,000 people at a time, the camp included 40 barracks, a hospital, officer quarters, stables and a commissary.

https://www.wpr.org/listen-live?network=classical

In 1861, the federal government requested soldiers from northern states to help fight for the Union Army in the Civil War. Wisconsin Gov. Alexander Randall chose the fairgrounds as a place to train these recruits, and the camp would bear his name as a result. It was a 53-acre plot of land that covered "a pretty big chunk of what is now the UW-Madison campus," said Einstein.
Einstein said more than 70,000 Wisconsin troops prepared for war at Camp Randall until the end of the war in 1865.
"That was fully three-quarters of all the soldiers that Wisconsin provided to the Union Army — a really significant military establishment here in Madison," he said.

This photo circa-1861 shows soldiers in formation at the military Camp Randall in the winter. According to the Wisconsin Historical Society, the area seen here is likely now near the corner of University Avenue and Randall Street in Madison. Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society
To accommodate up to 5,000 people at a time, the camp included 40 barracks, a hospital, officer quarters, stables and a commissary.
For one month in 1862, Einstein pointed out that 1,200 Confederate prisoners of war were taken to Madison and held at Camp Randall. Disease and wounds caused 140 deaths among that group. Those soldiers were buried in Forest Hill Cemetery on Madison's west side. It was the northernmost burial site for Confederate soldiers in the U.S., Einstein said.

Forest Hill Cemetery is a stop on many paranormal tours and investigations.

 

[Kathy the history sleuth]

There is a similar situation in Madison Wisconsin.


To accommodate up to 5,000 people at a time, the camp included 40 barracks, a hospital, officer quarters, stables and a commissary.

https://www.wpr.org/listen-live?network=classical

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In 1861, the federal government requested soldiers from northern states to help fight for the Union Army in the Civil War. Wisconsin Gov. Alexander Randall chose the fairgrounds as a place to train these recruits, and the camp would bear his name as a result. It was a 53-acre plot of land that covered "a pretty big chunk of what is now the UW-Madison campus," said Einstein.
Einstein said more than 70,000 Wisconsin troops prepared for war at Camp Randall until the end of the war in 1865.
"That was fully three-quarters of all the soldiers that Wisconsin provided to the Union Army — a really significant military establishment here in Madison," he said.
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This photo circa-1861 shows soldiers in formation at the military Camp Randall in the winter. According to the Wisconsin Historical Society, the area seen here is likely now near the corner of University Avenue and Randall Street in Madison. Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society
To accommodate up to 5,000 people at a time, the camp included 40 barracks, a hospital, officer quarters, stables and a commissary.
For one month in 1862, Einstein pointed out that 1,200 Confederate prisoners of war were taken to Madison and held at Camp Randall. Disease and wounds caused 140 deaths among that group. Those soldiers were buried in Forest Hill Cemetery on Madison's west side. It was the northernmost burial site for Confederate soldiers in the U.S., Einstein said.

Forest Hill Cemetery is a stop on many paranormal tours and investigations.

The last sentence is mine, not part of the article.

 

[NH Civil War Gal]

Shortly after the Battle of Shiloh, wounded Confederates were sent by rail to Oxford, MS and the University of Mississippi. The Lyceum, administrative, classroom and dormitory building, was converted to a military hospital. The campus was used for treating casualties of both sides till the end of the War. In fact a Confederate cemetery was established on campus which holds bodies of Federal and Confederate soldiers. Both the Lyceum and the cemetery still exist to this day
Regards
David

MS - Ole Miss Confederate Cemetery | Civil War Cemeteries: Where Valor Proudly Sleeps

There is a proposal by the University of Mississippi to move the Confederate Soldier Statue from the center of campus to the Confederate Cemetery on the South side of the campus. I thought I would post a few photos of the Cemetery for those who have not had the opportunity to visit Ole Miss...

civilwartalk.com

Civil War Commentary and Local History Featuring Starke Miller: The Lyceum – The Local Voice

www.thelocalvoice.net

Very interesting articles! I'm always with the horses one! I thought you mentioned in the forums, at one time, that you worked for the University. Have you ever had or known of a paranormal experience there?

 

[Ole Miss]

In my 27 plus years working at Ole Miss I never had an experience with a haint, ghost, poltergeist or spirit. I only dealt with real life bad behaving individuals, especially irate mothers who believed their daughters were not treated fairly by the judges in the Miss University pageants which led to Miss Mississippi then Miss America. Many complaints dealt with duct tape and silicon. Talking about angry spirits!!!
Regards
David

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

There are too many supposedly haunted "makeshift" Civil War hospitals to name in my part of Mississippi.

But the first one that comes to mind is the wine cellar at the Duff Green mansion in Vicksburg.
It's well documented that part of the home was used for amputations (both Union & Confederate injured).

Throughout the years, a common "sighting" has been that of a CSA soldier sitting by the fireplace, smiling and rubbing his
knee, where his lower leg once was.

Interesting article about this "hospital" at :

Is the Duff Green Mansion in Vicksburg, Mississippi Haunted? 'Ghost Hunters' Investigate

Is the historic location haunted?

www.distractify.com

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

In my 27 plus years working at Ole Miss I never had an experience with a ghost. I only dealt with real life bad behaving individuals

I say again.

There's no doubt I had to talk to you before JJ.
(Dr. James V. Jones)



Anyway ...

I witnessed some very unexplained events at Ole Miss in a dorm room where a student had died during the early 1970s, but that's off topic.

But I never saw anything at the Confederate Cemetery or the (two buildings ?) that still remain on the circle ... that were also used as hospitals after Shiloh.

 

[Sheltowee]

I say again.

There's no doubt I had to talk to you before JJ.
(Dr. James V. Jones)



Anyway ...

I witnessed some very unexplained events at Ole Miss in a dorm room where a student had died during the early 1970s, but that's off topic.

But I never saw anything at the Confederate Cemetery or the (two buildings ?) that still remain on the circle ... that were also used as hospitals after Shiloh.

Feeling spooky…… please share your dorm stories!

 

[Tony Z]

Thank you! @Gary Morgan. I knew there was a very good one about the blood on the floor but I didn't know who and where that happened.

I've been in the Pry House several times and in the room Richardson died in but I've never felt anything while in the house.

At Burnside Bridge, what I HAVE felt, and it seems weird in such a place that had so much violence, is a transcendent peace. My niece and I once stayed there for 30 minutes, facing upstream in the Spring sunshine and warmth, and watch these birds dip into the water and dart back to their nests. We didn't even WANT to speak. It was like some sort of spell was upon us. I can't explain it and don't know what it was but overwhelming peace. And no one else was around the time we were there, but to both us, we both felt we had experienced "something."

If anyone has any ideas what it was we felt, I'd certainly appreciate your opinions.

I sometimes get that in cemeteries, and almost always at Gettysburg Soldiers Cemetery.

 

[Ole Miss]

I have been to Shiloh many times and have often left at dark but never saw or experienced any supernatural phenomena. The National Cemetery is a beautiful spot of earth and I have never sensed any danger or strife. In fact the whole Park exudes a sense of peace that I always find comforting despite its bloody past.
Regards
David

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Feeling spooky…… please share your dorm stories!

Well, all I'll say was at first I only thought it was the upperclassmen "messing with us".

Until I moved into his room.

There were a couple of graduate students still around that knew him.
They were not impressed when those " his ghost" conversations came up.
I get their point. The departed was their friend.

But I will never forget some things I saw happen in that room.

Haunted ?
I have no idea.

Unexplained ?
Understatement.

 

[NH Civil War Gal]

Well, all I'll say was at first I only thought it was the upperclassmen "messing with us".

Until I moved into his room.

There were a couple of graduate students still around that knew him.
They were not impressed when those " his ghost" conversations came up.
I get their point. The departed was their friend.

But I will never forget some things I saw happen in that room.

Haunted ?
I have no idea.

Unexplained ?
Understatement.

You are teasing now! What ARE some of the things you experienced or saw in that room? You can't leave us hanging this way!

 

[mofederal]

My Shiloh experiences are here on the forum someplace. They were creepy, and I can still hear them in my mind when I concentrate upon them. Perhaps, I'll have to rewrite them. They are unforgettable.

I have had great success with EVP's, over the years beginning in the early 1980's. I have also heard many voices and other sounds in the clear also. As for figures, I have seen several partial figures. One was a body from the waist on down at Pea Ridge, another at the old site of a house near me. A third I rarely mention is the hazy figure of a close friend appearing in my living room. I grant that many EVP's need to be translated, as they are so low on the audio scale. I find that many videos can also be very hard to watch, and I think it helps when they outline the figures. I have also heard EVP's recorded by a local paranormal group I used to belong too, and I never wanted to hear them again. They were from a nearby abandoned insane asylum. I have been by it a few and I don't even like driving near it. If I remember right the field hospital where General Armistead died at Gettysburg is haunted.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

You are teasing now! What ARE some of the things you experienced or saw in that room? You can't leave us hanging this way!

I'm not trying to tease, and I'd rather not go into detail ... but a few examples included books sliding across a desk, window blinds rattling when his name was mentioned, and the common electrical phenomena associated with these situations:
( televisions and lights rapidly turning on and off for a few seconds, ect ).

We seriously tried to rationally explain such, but couldn't.

 

[Ole Miss]

@NH Civil War Gal wrote:
"You are teasing now! What ARE some of the things you experienced or saw in that room? You can't leave us hanging this way!"

Tina never ask a collge guy what goes on in his dorm room or you will go screaming into the night!!
Regards
David

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

and I never wanted to hear them again.

Agreed.

Such things fascinated me when I was younger but very skeptical.
Until my above posts.

Now I think such "events" may be best left alone.

 

[mofederal]

My dorm in college wasn't haunted, but two on our campus were haunted. Two by suicide, and one by a so-called accident, but really murder, more or less by murder. I know the whole story, because I researched it out and I also knew witnesses to events.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Tina never ask a collge guy what goes on in his dorm room or you will go screaming into the night!!
Regards
David

LOL.

Good advice David.

(Especially if a bottle of tequila is involved).

But I'm sure Tina was well aware about such dangers !

 

[Ole Miss]

No woman has a clue what really happens but they think they do!!!! They don't have a clue.
Regards
David