It said that some ghosts are the souls of those who dad suddenly are tragically.

And are tied to the location of their demise for all eternity. Unable to accept their death.

If this is the case, then the battlefields strewn all over the country should be some of the most haunted places in America.

Few things were more sudden or tragic than taking a 24-pound halitzer to the face,

while slowly walking toward a line of people who were supposed to kill you with rifles were bayonets.

That being said, if ghosts do exist, then the battlefields of Petersburg must be crawling with them.

It has been said that Petersburg was the graveyard of the Confederacy, rightly so. It's the final resting place for 30,000 rebel souls.

For ten months, Ulysses has grants, well-homed war machine battered away at robbery leaves outnumbered army.

Open battle gave way to trench war on a scale unmatched until WWI, with all the horrors that went with it.

With so much suffering and death, it's not surprising that Petersburg should play host to a number of ghosts.

Grant's goal had been the Confederate capital of Richmond, the Eldorado of all Union commanders since the start of the war.

But Richmond's defenses were too strong to be taken by direct assault. So in June 1864, Grant turned southward to the rail junction at the city of Petersburg.

Petersburg was the narrow bottleneck through which all supplies going to Lee and Richmond passed. Cut off that vital supply line and Richmond would be doomed. The Confederate army would be trapped.

Secretly, Grant moved against a strategic spot. Lee, however, with an almost six cents, transferred troops to that front just in time to prevent the city's capture.

The Confederates beat off repeated federal assaults in a series of desperate battles.

But Grant was not like the previous Union generals Lee had fought. Instead of going away to lick his wounds, Grant hunkered down where he was prepared to do whatever it took to win the war.

Every October, Petersburg holds ghost tours as some of its best known haunts. On high street, for example, stands Steward House, one of the stops on the tour.

It claims to date back to 1798, but its resident revenant is vintage civil war. There, it is said that one may see a spectral face peering from the front window.

Dressed in Confederate garb, he peers at Passersby, an enigmatic reminder of the war.

On a grander scale, it was the mansion of Center Hill, overlooking the Apatamax River. It was built on a magnificent scale with a long history.

A number of ghost and habit Center Hill, from a pretty lady who dwelt on the second floor to an organ in the library that plays all on its own.

At the most notable spectral disturbance connected with the Civil War, used to occur on a set schedule.

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