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- Feb 5, 2017
In all the primary sources I’ve read, I’ve read about superstitions and premonitions of death but I’ve never read about ghosts of other soldiers - even when they are passing through old battlefields (like Bull Run) or even camping at old battlefields. I was thinking about that last night when I was reading a diary that said, something on the order, “we are back to an old camping place where the ashes of long ago camp fires and burnt out wagons are.”
You just know there would have been a handful of graves around, maybe by now unmarked, from sickness alone. Yet I haven’t come across any accounts of soldiers feeling spooked within the camps.
I’ve come across plenty of accounts of soldier feeling spooked on picket and even a funny one where a picket was laying down to hide and something “ghostly” brushed him and it was a raccoon and it frightened him more than anything else ever did during the war.
Any ideas on this?
You just know there would have been a handful of graves around, maybe by now unmarked, from sickness alone. Yet I haven’t come across any accounts of soldiers feeling spooked within the camps.
I’ve come across plenty of accounts of soldier feeling spooked on picket and even a funny one where a picket was laying down to hide and something “ghostly” brushed him and it was a raccoon and it frightened him more than anything else ever did during the war.
Any ideas on this?