Skeletons of the Civil War - True Ghost Stories of the Army of Tennessee

by Debra Glass

Overview

Ghostly legends abound wherever history has made its mark. Skeletons of the Civil War follows the ghosts of the Army of Tennessee from the bloody Battle of Shiloh to its decimation on the killing fields of Franklin. Combining the craft of a story-teller (Glass), with the expert knowledge of a military historian (Mathews), the stories in this book are packed with archival photographs and intriguing first-hand accounts. Read fresh, spine-tingling accounts of a headless horseman who gallops through the eerie cedar glades at Stones River, the tale of the regiment which earned the nickname The Bloody Ninth at Shiloh, the phantom regiment at Resaca, the spirit of Tennessee's dashing Boy General, who followed a woman home, the mysterious empty graves near the Hazen monument, weirdness at The Dead Angle, true accounts of spirits who haunt the cavernous rooms of Tennessee's grand plantation houses, the tragic tale of Captain Tod Carter who was shot down within sight of his home, and many more.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015564266
Publisher:	Debra Glass
Publication date:	10/08/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	166
Sales rank:	916,554
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Debra Glass holds an MAed with emphasis in history from the University of North Alabama. The author of over thirty-five books of folklore and romance, she has also penned several articles for Fate Magazine as well as historical articles for various Civil War Magazines. She conducts the Haunted History of the Shoals Ghost Walk Tours. Heath Mathews is a military historian and has worked and volunteered at several historical sites, including: The Carter House, (Franklin, Tennessee), Carnton Plantation, (Franklin, Tennessee), Chickamauga Chattanooga National Military Park, and Rippavilla Plantation, (Springhill, Tennessee). He has also served as a research historian for Wide Awake Films. He has appeared as a historian, on the History Channel's Civil War Combat Series Franklin.