Civil War Ghosts of Virginia [Paperback]

L. B., Jr. Taylor (Author), Brenda Goens (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1996 | ISBN-10: 0962827126 | ISBN-13: 978-0962827129 | Edition: Autographe

Dare you not believe? The last march of Robert E. Lee, 60 years after Appomattox! The spectral return of Stonewall Jackson's amputated arm! The haunting corpse of John Brown at Harper's Ferry! . . . Are the accounts true?

Product Details

• Paperback: 225 pages
• Publisher: Virginia Ghosts; Autographe edition (April 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0962827126
• ISBN-13: 978-0962827129
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,802,907 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ghosts in lost Graveyard of Lebanon, VA, April 20, 2004

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This review is from: Civil War Ghosts of Virginia (Paperback)

My name is Richard Fulgham, author of "The Hogs of Cold Harbor", "The Embracing Woods", "The Lion of Saint Catharine", "Appalachian Genesis" and "Man's Laughter: Anatomy of a Manhunt". What I say here is true. I met Mr. Taylor in the late '90's when I was a reporter for the Lebanon Newspaper in Russell County, VA. I'd discovered a 200+ yr old graveyard near North Street, all grown over with trees and undergrowth. Some of the trees were three feet thick. Amongst the tombstones, I found about a dozen graves of Confederate soldiers. Mr. Taylor visited and I took him to the site. I don't know what's in the book, but we saw nothing spooky. But when I went back myself that night, I saw reddish "lamps" moving around, emanating from quivering fog-like forms -- which were translucent and seemed to glow in the moonlight. This accouht may be in another one of Mr. Taylor's excellent studies, but it happened. I was the man. I was there. I saw them.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Haunted Virginia., January 1, 2004

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Dennis Phillips "The Book Friar" (Bulls Gap, Tennessee USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Civil War Ghosts of Virginia (Paperback)

Mr. Taylor has written several ghost books but this is the first of his works that I have had the pleasure to read. His writing style is quite good and this is an easy and enjoyable read. There are some typos but that is the fault of the editor, not the author. This is not a particularly chilling book but it is fun nonetheless.

Several of the ghost stories to be found in this book are very good. They contain recent eyewitness accounts and are well documented. On the other hand, Mr. Taylor falls into the trap that snares many authors of civil war ghost books. In short, he gets caught up in the history of the place where his story takes place and almost forgets the ghost. The story of the Stone House at Manassas is very good for example and the story of Jefferson Davis' son Joe is both eerie and touching. On the other hand the story about Belle Boyd is fairly long and only the last paragraph mentions a ghost while the story of the Escape from the Grave contains no ghost at all. I get the feeling from his introduction and a few of his chapters that the author might have had several good ghost stories and was badly in need of filler material. Quite frankly, the book would have been much better if he had produced a shorter but more true to its title book.

Still, this is a book that would interest both those who like good ghost stories and also civil war buffs. The author even manages to sneak some Gettysburg ghost stories in and even though Gettysburg is not in Virginia I am always ready to read new ghostly encounters from that little Pennsylvania town. This is a book you definitely want to read before taking a vacation in Old Virginia.