Civil war ghosts of Virginia

Taylor, L. B. (Author). Goens, Brenda E. (Added Author).

Summary: A collection of ghost stories from Virginia during the Civil War.

Record details

ISBN: 0962827126
ISBN: 9780962827129
Physical Description: print
xv, 225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher: [Williamsburg, Va.] : [L.B. Taylor], �1995.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

John Brown's body lies a moldering -- The demise of Dangerfield Newby -- Strange occurrences in Harper's Ferry -- The restless casualties of Ball's Bluff -- The lost yankee at Willis House -- Kindred spirits at Kenmore -- The ghostly reenactment of Jeb Stuart's ride -- Return of the female phantom -- Psychic imprints on the battlefield -- A sampling of spectral vignettes -- The skeleton in the wall -- Grant won't hang here -- The apparition at Abingdon Church -- The domestic who foresaw death -- Mike Hardy mends his ways -- Milling soldiers at Mannsfield -- A psychic prophecy or intuitive genius? -- Restless souls at Wake Hill -- Escape from the grave -- A ghostly practical joke -- A bloody image in the church -- The sentry with no feet -- A psychic premonition in the parlor -- The ghost with Stonewall Jackson's arm -- Method in Jackson's madness -- The guest ghost in room 403 -- The winged harbinger of doom -- A 'release' ceremony at Selma -- The ghost train at Cohoke Crossing -- The disaster of Dahlgren's raid -- Non-paying guests at the Wayside Inn -- The battlefield ghosts of Cedar Creek -- The searching spirit of the Shenandoah -- The legendary lady of Luray -- Weird wanderings at Willow Grove -- Visions of the Seaford psychic -- The sad specter at Black Walnut -- A reunion at Hollywood Cemetery -- The ominous cloud over Cold Harbor -- All is not quiet on the Petersburg battlefield -- The gentle spirit of Burnt Quarter -- The lone sentinel of Sailor's Creek -- An apparition dressed in gray -- The last march of Robert E. Lee -- The case of the frightening footsteps -- The ghost brigade of Centre Hill -- The survival of John Wilkes Booth -- The cruel fate of Mary Surratt -- The man with no heart -- The redemption of Dr. Samuel Mudd -- The most troubled spirit of all -- The imprisonment of Jefferson Davis -- A monument to the spirits of the dead.