Gettysburg is both one of the best-documented battles of the American Civil War and one of the world's most famous haunted landscapes. After the Cannon Smoke reconstructs the three days of fighting, the wounded left behind, burials, photography, monuments and veterans' memory before examining apparitions at Devil's Den, Little Round Top, Sachs Bridge and other sites. Phantom regiments, gunfire, photographs, electronic voices and ghost tours are tested against chronology, landscape and source quality. The book treats soldiers and civilians as historical people rather than supernatural scenery, offering a measured study of how catastrophe, commemoration and tourism shape a battlefield's afterlife.
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