1. Though some historians consider this story apocryphal, it is found in Oliver Willcox Norton’s The Attack and Defense of Little Round Top, for years a standard source for the fighting there.
2. William C. Oates, The War Between the Union and the Confederacy and its Lost Opportunities, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1905.
3. Thomas A. Desjardin, Stand Firm Ye Boys From Maine, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
4. Oates, 219-227.
Dying Game
1. Andrew Brown, Geology and the Gettysburg Campaign, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: 1962.
2. Garry E. Adelman and Timothy H. Smith have produced, in my opinion, the best history of the action in and around Devil’s Den. Devil’s Den: A History and Guide, Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 1997, is recommended reading for anyone interested in the actions there.
3. Mark Nesbitt, 35 Days to Gettysburg: The Campaign Diaries of Two American Enemies, Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, PA, 1992.
Eden Afire
1. In 1976, the National Cemetery was considered “closed” to any new burials. Exceptions are wives and one dependent child of a veteran already interred in the Cemetery. As of September 1976, the total acreage, including the Annex on Steinwehr Avenue was 20.55. However, Civil War burials in one common grave continue as bodies continue to be found.
Climbing to Golgotha
1. Glenn Tucker, High Tide at Gettysburg, Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., New York: 1958, 300.
2. For a detailed account of the fighting on Culp’s Hill, see Tucker, High Tide at Gettysburg, 304-305 and Edwin Coddington’s Gettysburg: A Study in Command, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1968.
Pageant of the Macabre
1. William C. Oates, 219.
2. Thomas A. Desjardin, in the appendix to his book, Stand Firm Ye Boys From Maine, does not mention any soldier from the unit killed by a bayonet to the head. There are, however, a number of men listed simply as “killed” among whom this unfortunate Maine man may be listed.
3. Mark Nesbitt, Ghosts of Gettysburg, Gettysburg, PA: Second Chance Publications, 2011.
4. See Ghosts of Gettysburg.
Masters of the Ruins
1. Adelman and Smith, Devil’s Den, Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 1997
2. Formerly More Ghosts of Gettysburg.
Mysteries of Oak Ridge
1. From Brigadier General Thomas L. Kane to H. Rothermel, attached to a March 21, 1874, letter in the Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
2. Lt. Francis Wiggin, “Sixteenth Maine Regiment at Gettysburg”; from Bandy, Freeland, Bearss, The Gettysburg Papers.
3. David G. Martin, Gettysburg, July 1, Conshohocken, PA: Combined Books, 1996.
4. Auditory events are the most common of all paranormal happenings, and many people have reported what sounds like a “cocktail party”—the white noise chattering that is identical to the sounds of a party in the next room. Dorothy Fiedel, author of several ghost books about Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has confirmed hearing the “party” noise, which ceased as she approached. A story about party-like noises in the historic Weikert House appears in Ghosts of Gettysburg II, 74-75. And that is exactly the noise one can hear in the background of electronic voice phenomena recordings. It is almost as if the dead were discussing whether they want to talk with us or not.
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Be cheerful, sir.
Our revels now are ended. These are our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air.
—William Shakespeare, The Tempest
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Map of Ghost Story Venues.
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