The Story Behind This Haunted Battlefield In Tennessee Is Truly Creepy
Tennessee is mired in Civil War history, and the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park commemorates one of the most terrible losses of life in the war – the Battle of Chickamauga. Before we get a bunch of angry Georgians up in here? Chattanooga was the hub of the battle, which, quite obviously is in Tennessee – however. The battle and military parks are shared between states. The eerie thing about it? If we share Chickamauga…do we share the ghosts, too?
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There are multiple stories of different ghosts haunting the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. The original battle was fought in 1863, but the yearning cry of the lives lost bleeds over even into today.
Union troops captured Chattanooga and they were on their way to Atlanta, they were led by General William Rosencrans.
37,000 soldiers were killed from both armies over the two day period. The blood ran thick over the foliage, a mire of broken hearts and lost dreams.
There were quite a few Union soldiers that were left for weeks on the field, only later thrown into unmarked graves by their enemies. One of the most famous ghosts is called the Lady in White, and she is supposedly searching for her husband who died in the battle, buried without a headstone.
The best known ghost that you'll find is named "Green Eyes."
He has made himself known in two different forms - he shows up as a headless man, searching for his decapitated head, and also as a man-beast.
The half man, half beast has long and stringy hair down to his waist, with sharp fangs and bright green eyes. It's said that the monster is from a Native American legend that was tossed from village to village even before the war. There are even some who said the creature wandered the battlefield amongst the corpses.
There's no surprise this place is haunted. You can almost feel the chill of the lost as you walk the fields - whether you're in Chattanooga, Tennessee or make your way over to Georgia.
It seems as if the last ghosts haven’t quite made their way home…we have shivers.
