hello all,
have been a reader for awhile now, but haven't posted, & until recently have forgotten that I actually have a few stories to pass down, some truely happened, some are questionable, others, well, you make up your mind. I'll try to post some stories this week, hopefully will remember all I want to tell by halloween. I'll start off with one that is as true as I'm sitting here. It happened to my husband & a friend abt 10+ yrs ago. We are Civil War reenactors, & camp @ the various battlefields in our period dress, & use the things that the people would have back then. This particular incident occured one night that we were reenacting the Battle of Perryville in Perryville, KY. It was late, the men were starting to bed down for the night when they started talking about who should stand guard and what shifts that they took, when we all heard hoof beats on the road 20 yds in front of us, so a couple of the men mounted their horses to make sure that the "other" side wasn't planning a raid on "our" camps, like sometimes happen. My husband and a long time friend of his jumped on their horses & caught up with the hoot beats, had the rider in between them on the road, & was abt to ask the rider what he was doing out so late when a car popped over the hill illuminating the road with my husband and his friend on either side and an empty space in between, these 2 came back to camp as white as sheets, & still to this day say that the hoof beats were in between them the whole time, even after the car illuminated that there was nothing there.
Several years later, we were again researcing that particular spot & was told that a Confederate Major had his horse shot out from under him @ that particular spot.