South Mountain, Fox's Gap

[18thmississippi]

Our unit goes up to Fox's Gap every year, camp out around our monument we placed up there (NC monument), and the next day go over to Gettysburg. My 2nd time camping out at the monument was on the anniversary of the battle, we decided to camp up there before heading over to the "Maryland my Maryland" reenactment. During the night I woke up for some random reason I'm not sure why, but as I sat there listening to the night come alive, I heard in the distance a single drum tap. It sounded very similar to a funeral cadence, but as i listened the tap became louder and louder. so I rolled over put my earphones in and turned on a little MP3 player I had and tried to go back to sleep. I cant explain it, but I've been back to that spot and camped many times since then and haven't heard again. All i know is that there is a strong presence up on the mountain and it doesn't want us to forget what happened there.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Guessing a reminder, yes. I realize there are plenty who scoff at these reports but seems pretty clear the violence of those awful days left some behind.

What's more eerie would have been the age of a drummer killed during the war. Maybe not all of them were too young to be there but an awful lot should have been home, trying to finish growing up.

 

[M Anthony Young]

These are great stories, 18th Miss.. Keep em comin'!

 

[ErnieMac]

More hauntings from the Battles of South Mountain.
https://wizzley.com/battlefield-south-mountain-hauntings/

 

[tbuckley]

When I go to Antietam I try to make time to go to Fox's Gap because companies B and F of the 30th O.V.I. had connections to Belmont and Harrison Counties. The area of the North Carolina monument and the stone fence does have an eerie feeling.
Also, the parking area near the Garland marker and Reno monument is where the Wise house and well were.

 

[18thmississippi]

When I go to Antietam I try to make time to go to Fox's Gap because companies B and F of the 30th O.V.I. had connections to Belmont and Harrison Counties. The area of the North Carolina monument and the stone fence does have an eerie feeling.
Also, the parking area near the Garland marker and Reno monument is where the Wise house and well were.

What's really eerie is being there at dark and walking from the monument down to the parking lot through the cut trail, not the paved road, but the one through the woods itself. Won't ever do that one again

 

[tbuckley]

What's really eerie is being there at dark and walking from the monument down to the parking lot through the cut trail, not the paved road, but the one through the woods itself. Won't ever do that one again

The first time I walked up to the monument I recall that there a lot of trash that had been dumped in the woods, including a radiator shell from a 1930-40s truck. The woods have been cleaned up some but there is still broken glass and other things that might make a walk in the dark a little dangerous.

 

[Rebelsoul]

Our unit goes up to Fox's Gap every year, camp out around our monument we placed up there (NC monument), and the next day go over to Gettysburg. My 2nd time camping out at the monument was on the anniversary of the battle, we decided to camp up there before heading over to the "Maryland my Maryland" reenactment. During the night I woke up for some random reason I'm not sure why, but as I sat there listening to the night come alive, I heard in the distance a single drum tap. It sounded very similar to a funeral cadence, but as i listened the tap became louder and louder. so I rolled over put my earphones in and turned on a little MP3 player I had and tried to go back to sleep. I cant explain it, but I've been back to that spot and camped many times since then and haven't heard again. All i know is that there is a strong presence up on the mountain and it doesn't want us to forget what happened there.

I lived on Reno monument Rd for 5 years about a half mile from the top of the mountain at Fox's gap. I used to go up there all the time and walk around. This was in the the mid 80s. I used to hear horses clip clopping down the road all the time in front of my house late at night sometimes so loud I'd go look. Of course there was never anything there. Sometimes standing in my back yard late at night I'd hear gunshots up there. Very spooky and would give me cold chills !

 

[mofederal]

I have read about lot of hauntings in that general area. No specific book, but ones I used to own about American Hauntings. I think some of them came from Blue & Gray Magazine. It was a great source of information on Civil War hauntings. Of course nothing is better than personal experience.