Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War

Explore the strange and shadowy side of the civil war . . . A fascinating collection of ghostly sightings, auspicious visions, audible manifestations, and uncanny premonitions.

• In 1872 a photographer who claimed he could capture the “essence’ of dead relatives took an image purporting to show Mary Todd Lincoln with the protective ghost of Abraham Lincoln behind her.


• The spirit of George Washington who appeared to John C. Calhoun in the 1840s to persuade him not to dissolve the union.


• The nameless drummer boy from the Army of Ohio who still plays at the Shiloh battlefield


• The twentieth-century schoolchildren who heard the Irish brigade on the Antietam battlefield


• Teddy Roosevelt and First Lady Grace Coolidge who both claim to have enountered Abraham Linicoln in the White House


• Jefferson davis and his wife Varina who both have been seen at Fort Monroe, Virginia, where he was imprisoned after the War