Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
03-05-2009, 09:11 AM
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
1 of the top 10 most Haunted Places!
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The most deadly battle of the Civil War
took place in 1863 in the tiny Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg.
Union soldiers were low on ammunition and losing the fight,
nearly capitulating them to the advancing Confederate army.
Then, as they used up the last of their gunpowder,
a ghostly George Washington on a white stallion appeared before them,
urging them on to victory â an event that ultimately
turned the tide of the war.
That's the way the legend tells it anyway, and to this day,
the people who live in and around Gettysburg maintain
that George Washington's ghost rides
regally across that same battlefield every summer.
Of all the forlorn,
countless souls awash in time,
none reach out to us more than those of the dead at Gettysburg. . .
Their presence on earth was silenced forever by death.
Or maybe not.
Terrifying visions and horrible scenes
of the atrocities of a Civil War.
Battlefields, houses, lonely roads and shallow entrenchments
all still bear the tell-tale marks of three days
of gore and terror
that seared themselves into the collective memory of America.
"Gettysburg"
This one word can conjure up all these Haunted images and chills.
But the horrible days of the Battle of Gettysburg
are not just distant memory in this haunted Pennsylvania town.
It is as if the soldiers who fought and died here,
and the people whose lives were touched by this great catastrophe,
cannot help but continue to remind us
of what sacrifices were made here,
of what was won and lost on the sprawling hills of Gettysburg.
It is said that Gettysburg
is very likely the most haunted destination,
"acre for acre," in all of America.
The dead do not rest easy in Gettysburg,
and they are not hesitant to remind
the living that they refuse to be forgotten.
1 of the top 10 most Haunted Places!
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The most deadly battle of the Civil War
took place in 1863 in the tiny Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg.
Union soldiers were low on ammunition and losing the fight,
nearly capitulating them to the advancing Confederate army.
Then, as they used up the last of their gunpowder,
a ghostly George Washington on a white stallion appeared before them,
urging them on to victory â an event that ultimately
turned the tide of the war.
That's the way the legend tells it anyway, and to this day,
the people who live in and around Gettysburg maintain
that George Washington's ghost rides
regally across that same battlefield every summer.
Of all the forlorn,
countless souls awash in time,
none reach out to us more than those of the dead at Gettysburg. . .
Their presence on earth was silenced forever by death.
Or maybe not.
Terrifying visions and horrible scenes
of the atrocities of a Civil War.
Battlefields, houses, lonely roads and shallow entrenchments
all still bear the tell-tale marks of three days
of gore and terror
that seared themselves into the collective memory of America.
"Gettysburg"
This one word can conjure up all these Haunted images and chills.
But the horrible days of the Battle of Gettysburg
are not just distant memory in this haunted Pennsylvania town.
It is as if the soldiers who fought and died here,
and the people whose lives were touched by this great catastrophe,
cannot help but continue to remind us
of what sacrifices were made here,
of what was won and lost on the sprawling hills of Gettysburg.
It is said that Gettysburg
is very likely the most haunted destination,
"acre for acre," in all of America.
The dead do not rest easy in Gettysburg,
and they are not hesitant to remind
the living that they refuse to be forgotten.
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