Stiles/Akin
Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Apr 1, 2016
- Location
- Atlanta, Georgia
This old fort is supposedly haunted by a condemned Confederate bride
Civil War POW camps were some of the most terrible, squalid places of the entire war. Massachusetts' Fort Warren was an exception, however. It was used to house Confederate political prisoners and other high-value persons. Among those held here was…
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Legend has it that Melanie Lanier, the devoted wife of a captured Confederate troop, discovered his location via a letter he mailed her from the island prison. She immediately moved from Georgia to just outside Boston, Massachusetts, in the first step of an attempt to free her husband from the fortress.