Civil War Ghosts (Civil War Series)
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ISBN: 0874831733 / Publisher: August House, January 2006
A collection of ghost stories centered around the War Between the States features tales by John Jakes, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Ambrose Bierce, and others
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After a war where passions were so intense, where so many died before they could finish the business of living, is it any wonder that stories of ghosts persist 130 years later? Some of these stories were written at the time of the Civil War, and some decades later. Some center on Union soldiers, others on Confederates. But what unifies these stories is the horror of the losses we sustained, a horror that cannot be measured in numbers or dollars but can only be conveyed in the language of our nation's imagination.
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