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Eight separate companies offer ghost tours in Gettysburg—some seasonally, and some all year. [5] A book, Ghosts of Gettysburg: Spirits, Apparitions and Haunted Places of the Battlefield, [6] by Mark Nesbitt, detailed the reports of ghostly apparitions in the area where the Battle of Gettysburg took place in July 1863.
Blue Boys is the subject of many books, documentary's, lore, and Walking Tours, in Gettysburg, PA. The story of Blue Boy was also a entity subject book in a volume of Mark Nesbitt's Ghost of Gettysburg. Blue Boy reached celebrity status and popular fame from the Ghosts of Gettysburg documentary which aired originally on the History Channel in 1995.
Tour guide Mr. Jim shares ghostly tales during a Civil War Ghosts of Gettysburg ghost tour by US Ghost Adventures along Baltimore Street, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, in Gettysburg Borough.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is said to have a few ghosts, including dead soldiers from the Battle of Ball's Bluff fought during the American Civil War haunting near the 33–34 mile mark, [72] a lady ghost on the 2 mile level at Catoctin (between locks 28 and 29), [72] a headless man haunting the Paw Paw Tunnel, [73] and a ghost of a robber at ...
The people of Gettysburg say they still feel the spirits of lives lost during the three-day battle that would define American history. "It was the bloodiest single battle of the American Civil War ...
During the battle of Gettysburg, the home was owned by Henry Comfort and was occupied by his family. The total number of wounded soldiers treated at the home is unknown, but it is known that Captain John Costin who served with the Eighty-Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry was brought to the home after being wounded during the fighting on July 1st.
With more than 50,000 estimated casualties at the Battle of Gettysburg, the historic site today has no shortage of ghost stories and ghost sightings for those who dare to tread the battlefield.
Mary Virginia Wade (May 21, 1843 – July 3, 1863), also known as Jennie Wade or Ginnie Wade, [1] was a resident of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania during the Battle of Gettysburg. At the age of 20, she was the only direct civilian casualty of the battle, [ 2 ] when she was killed by a stray bullet on July 3, 1863.