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Date Posted: 09:23:41 02/20/01 Tue
Author: GZIEGLER
Subject: A Gettysburg Ghost

This goes back several years. I was deer hunting along a small strip between the gettysburg Country Club and the battlefield. I climbed up the biggest and oldest tree along the creek so i could cover the largest area. It was late afternoon early evening, a great time to catch a deer coming down to the creek for a drink. When out of the corner of my eye i spotted someone in a uniform working his way toward me. He was dressed in a blue uniform. At first i thought that maybe he was a US Park Ranger making sure that i stayed off the battle field. But they usually wear green uniforms not blue. This fellow was jumping from tree to tree trying to keep from being seen by me. He seemed intent on getting closer to me. He was kind of playing a came of peek-a-boo with me. I watched him with my binaculors as he got closer to me i made out his features. He was well groomed dark hair and a dark beard. He was distigueshed looking and not at all ghostly. I figgured he did not want me hunting there and it made me mad, becouse he was upsetting my deer hunting. He made his way to the last tree in the corner of the woods, to his left was an open field and in front of him was the creek. he just keep playing peek-a-boo hiding behing the tree and just peeking around at me. After a short time i had enough. I got mad. And climbed down the tree to give him a piece of my mind. He ruined my afternoon hunt and i was going to tell him off. I kept my eyes on him the whole time and as i i neared the tree he was hiding behind he just disapeard.
This troubled me for some time. Till i finally investagated what happend on that spot back in 1863. It so happends that Union General Buford was shot and killed not 50 yards from where i was hunting. He was shot by a sniper who had climbed up a tree on the other side of the creek possibly the same tree i was hunting from. Could it be that i was in some way recreating something that the General did not like????

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Re: A Gettysburg Ghost -- GeorgeZ, 07:35:18 02/22/01 Thu