Do Civil War Ghosts Still Scream at Being Burned Alive?

Located just west of Fredericksburg, Virginia, the Wilderness Battlefield is a labyrinth of dense vegetation and was the site of one of the most intense and deadliest battles of the American Civil War.  What happened to the soldiers on both sides echoes deep into the woods with fire and flames. More after the jump.

As cannons tore through the battlefield, small forest fires began to erupt, and the wounded could do nothing more than watch as the flames closed in around them. Only slightly less frightening than the battle, itself, was what was left behind. Trees still carry their battle scars, and some of them hold cannonballs that have become a permanently affixed in the bark. After the fight, the field remained littered with the bones of the dead. Carts were loaded with remains, but some bones hidden deep in the woods remained hidden for decades and are still occasionally discovered by hikers. Not long ago, one tourist to the site came across a boot with a fully skeletonized foot still inside.

The forest continued to burn, and the screams of men burning alive could be heard all over the battlefield.

Supposedly, the victims of both sides of this bloody Civil War battle haunt the field and surrounding woods to this day. While it’s rumored that bodies are undiscovered in the ground, still resting where they first fell, some locals say you can sometimes still hear the screams of people burning alive.

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