5 UNSOLVED CIVIL WAR MYSTERIES That Still Baffle Us

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the four-year long American Civil War from 1861 to 1865 profoundly shaped the modern United States democracy it resulted in the loss of 750,000 soldiers but secured the abolition of slavery and restoration of national unity as with any intense combat it also left a footprint of unresolved questions and hidden secrets here are five intriguing mysteries from the American Civil War number five Fort Monroe Fort Monroe was one of the few southern thoughts that remained in government hands and was never captured by the South during the Civil War despite being surrounded by Confederate territory the castle like structure with its moat and massive walls is repeated to accommodate many eminent ghosts as it seems to be haunted by nearly every important person who have visited it the specter of President Abraham Lincoln who is known to also horn many other places has be seen in the guest room which is now called the Lincoln room he's always wearing a dressing-gown and studying papers related to matters of state also visiting quarters number one is the apparition of the tough general ulysses s grant the Confederate leader Jefferson Davis was imprisoned in Fort Monroe after being falsely accused of planning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln during his stay he was taken for evening walks along the ramparts and his wife marina was able to assist him from a nearby house to ensure he was still well Davis's ghost is still seen walking the ramparts by night and the window in the house where Vorenus stayed is said to vibrate with her presence even the spirit of author Edgar Allen Poe who briefly served as a sergeant major of artillery at the fort has been spotted in his top hat on the balcony of the Chamberlain hotel inside the fort however the best-known of fort monroe ghosts is not a famous person at all an area called ghost alley is said to be haunted by the white lady who roams around Fort Monroe in search of a lost love she is said to be the wife of an objectionable captain who neglected her and lost her life had his hands when found with a young soldier she had befriended she roams the fort in a white nitrous surrounded by an eerie glowing mist there are many other stories from Fort Monroe spectral sightings around the fort have been reported for a long time often by military staff with sound reputations and scenery become common in one recent Belanger and haunting a couple happily coexists with a young family waiting for their soldier to return home they have seen a woman in Amarone victorian-era dress tending a crib and he had disembodied footsteps and voices even they're initially scared pets have adapted to the sharing arrangement number 4 general Grant's photograph a unique and famous image from the Civil War survives which is a landscape photographic portrait entitled General Grant at City Point it shows ulysses s grant commanding general of the Union Army and later become the 18th president of United States and is said to betray him addressing his troops from horseback at their base in City Point Virginia but a closer examination of the picture reveals some mystifying and non Elise grant the skilled equestrian is sitting very awkwardly atop its steed with his head twisted at a painful angle to his spine his body appears much larger than in other pictorial records and his uniform is oddly from a different time person as it shows his incorrect ranking with one star instead of three on his shoulder the horse is not one in the three he owned at the time and even the location of the picture is not where is claimed to be rather than City Point the background of the photograph is actually the prison camp have some captured Confederate soldiers at Fisher's Hill detective work by the Library of Congress has revealed that the photo is a composite or montage which combines images from three separate pictures grants head is taken from another quite informal photo which shows him standing in front of his 10 like an ordinary soldier and leaning casually against a tree the horse and weightier body have been appropriated from a portrait of major-general algas anthemic closer examination reveals tiny scratch marks showing the cropping and physical substitution of images in this skillful fabrication the manipulated photo with his majestic theme was fern have been assembled much later in 1902 possibly to illustrate the importance of grant during the Civil War it was probably used for publicity purposes in the absence of other contemporaneous pictures of the downer birth general number three Thomas W Timberlake understandably many soldiers carried mementos of loved ones when risking their lives in the armed conflict of the Civil War when Confederate private Thomas W Timberlake of the second Virginia infantry was wandering through the devastated battlefield of port Republic he made a discovery of an ambrotype photograph of a young girl his dilemma was that the photo was positioned exactly between the bodies of two soldiers one of them Confederate and the other one Union Timmy Lake retrieved that poignant image as it finally found its place in the Museum of Confederacy in Richmond Virginia although photography was still a relatively new process during the Civil War the image showing many other mystery fathers of many women and children in the museum's collection the personal effects of soldiers from both sides of the war give him for safekeeping were never reclaimed most likely because their owners did not return they depict people who are long deceased although the museum has occasionally tracked down some of the individuals but most pictures like that of the unidentified girl remain intriguing shadows of a past age never recognized or reclaimed by anyone number two Kolb's farm the trauma of war often leaves a psychic footprint even more so because of the emotional conflict of brother against brother where the Civil War has left in its wake quite a few ghost stories if you believe the legends and sightings most major Civil War battlefields are rife with hauntings of young men not ready to pass and sometimes engaging with the living even a minor battle site can become notorious for ghost sightings coal bridge Court was a small housing settlement on Cobbs farm near Marietta Georgia on June 20 seconds' 1864 an armed skirmish occurred that became known as the Battle of corpse farm thus most girls conflict which had erupted left the area experiencing strange phenomena the settlement survived the war and later new homes were built a new families took up residence however apparitions of Civil War soldiers routinely take casual strolls through these new homes and the owners of one in particular have reported extremely frightening events from the spirit it seems to have moved in the couple have seen a strangely solid man in civil war-era clothing moving around their house other phenomena have included invisible hands pulling up the clothing cold spots a most unnerving Lee use of their power tools went back sir turned the guest room Bell has been repeatedly run when noon was present curiously the couple realized that the ghost behavior was teasing in nature and were able to make peace with their civil war spirit they decided that the ghost was fairly shy I Lenny started interfering when he felt neglected now that pay attention to their spiritual housemate give him a free run and lived with the entity in amiable coexistence number one Stonewall Jackson until recently an answered question surrounded the untimely passing of Thomas J Stonewall Jackson the famous Confederate Lieutenant General on a pitch-black night he and several of his troop and horses were targeted by their own side as a return to camp following the Battle of Chancellorsville on May the 2nd 1863 although Jackson and his staff gave frenzied shouts of identification a Major John Dee berry replied with it's a Damn Yankees trick fire it was never really clear what happened on that fateful night conspiracy theories of deliberate foul play have multiplied with the Jackson's Fame leading many people from both warring camps to claim that they were involved in his death in fact he was roughly evacuated in the fray by stretcher to a nearby plantation office building and his left arm amputated due to the poor conditions he developed undetected symptoms of pneumonia which led to his passing eight days later generally historians believe that darkness and chaos around the battlefield resulted in the friendly fire that saw Jackson's demise however they still remained unanswered questions in 2013 two astronomers meticulously calculated the phases of the Moon on that unfortunate night they found that when Jackson was returning to his infantry the moon was so dim that only the silhouettes of himself and his men would be discerned his exhausted and terrified soldiers were probably startled by the shadows and instinctively opened fire only to find in horror that they had downed their own commander 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Published: Fri May 17 2019

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