As our friend Dean Negus said "I don't belive in ghosts but there's something alive down there." Driving through the Chickamauga battlefiend did make me feel that there is more than meets the eye. Civil War buffs will know this series of battles were among the bloodiest between the Confederacy and the Union, over a hundred years ago perhaps but being there is just something different.

There are memorials to the various skirmishes and various units throught the area the size of a small town and some of the original barriers and barricades can still be seen. I remember one to an Ohio regiment about five miles from the main area - does this mean they were killed en route?The picure below is off a cabin which still stands today - in the war it was in the undeclared no mans zone.

There is also a large preserved Civil War era mansion converted into a museum with guided tours available for interested parties. For myself, just driving through those empty silent woods was sobering enough, It's beautiful and heart breaking at the same time. If anything it was good to finally visualize the Civil War scenes  described on this authoratative Civil War site.