Haunted Alabama Battlefields

by Dale Langella

Overview

Alabama is no stranger to the battles and blood of the Civil War, and nearly every eligible person in the state participated in some fashion. Some of those citizen soldiers may linger still on hallowed ground throughout the state. War-torn locations such as Fort Blakely National Park, Crooked Creek, Bridgeport and Old State Bank have chilling stories of hauntings never before published. In Cahawba, Colonel C.C. Pegue's ghost has been heard holding conversations near his fireplace. At Fort Gaines, sentries have been seen walking their posts, securing the grounds years after their deaths. Sixteen different ghosts have been known to take up residence in a historic house in Athens. Join author Dale Langella as she recounts the mysterious history of Alabama's most famous battlefields and the specters that still call those grounds home.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781609499167
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	09/24/2013
Series:	Haunted America
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	1,113,888
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Dale Langella moved to Alabama in her twenties and has had a passion for the state's military history and battlefields ever since. She is the founder and lead investigator of the Alabama Paranormal Association.

Table of Contents

Preface 9

Acknowledgements 21

The Siege of Bridgeport 23

The Battle of Fort Blakely 39

The Battles of Day's Gap, Crooked Creek and Hog Mountain 47

The Battle of Selma 56

The Battle of Mobile Bay 70

The Battle of Fort Mims 86

The Battle of Horseshoe Bend 93

The Battle of Decatur 101

The Sack of Athens, the Battle of Athens and Sulphur Creek Trestle 108

Additional Civil War Haunted Stories in Alabama 127

Bibliography 137

About the Author 143