re: September 18-20, 1863 - The Battle of Chickamauga | 160th Anniversary

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I used to go parking at Chickamauga Battlefield with dates when I was in HS in N. Georgia. That place Is creepy as frick at night and although I never saw anything….you can definitely hear noises and voices there at night that make the hair stand up on the back of your neck.

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I went to college in South Central VA about 20 minutes from Appomattox Courthouse. The area was punctuated by Lee's Retreat to Appomattox and my school had a regiment that served in the Army of Northern VA (one of the few collegiate companies in the war).

My freshman year around Halloween we headed out to Sailor's Creek, which was one the last battles of the Army of Northern VA before the surrender (LINK ) and posted up outside of a historic house that was turned a Confederate Field Hospital-adjacent to a field that served as a mass grave to the Confederate dead.

We played Dixie at Max Volume from one of my buddy's cars and the Wind dramatically picked up in the middle of the song- Freaked us out