The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-30

been claimed by friends who arrived
shortly after this fight and had been car
ried away, but this suppositi0n was after
wards discovered. so the story runs 10
have been unfounded. The negroes claim
10 have seen his ghost on the battlefield
on certain occasions. and they insist that
his bones are stiu in that field through
Whlch you came, although the field had
Deen pioWed a number OK times without
any remains having been discovered so
Tar as / ever heard
NO said he, in answer TO my ques-
tlon' none OF my family have ever seen
the VISION you speak Of. although on one
occasion, during the summer Of 'gs a boy
that 1 employed on the place came run
ming I'D the road, nearly frightened out of
ms wits, and said that a Iady's ghost had
followed him up the road, making all sorts
OF gestures He was a weak-minded sort
or chap, however, and none Of us ever
paid any attention to his story. But the
nlggers claim that IL was the spirit Of his
nancee, haunting the place where her
lover dled. II was known that he was en-
gagged TO very beautiful and accom-
plished young lady of Massachusetts and
mat she died soon after hearing Of his
strange disappearance after the battle Of
OK Hill, or Chantillly. as YOU Yankees
call it. The dead body or Whereabouts
of the young officer have never been as
certained 10 this day although the ground
about here has often been searched by
his relatives, who are very wealthy This
was several years ago, however and his
friends have concluded, as / have heard,
that he was buried with some of the
union dead at Arlington"
It now being very late. we retired for
the rest Of the night. The next morning
we went over to the wood where / had
been led by the lovely apparition, and were
not long In finding the place
where my handkerchief was tied
TO tree. We inaugurated
search, but fer a long time discovered
and were about 70 give no in
disgust, when Thompson. the name Of my
host Of the evening before. discovered in
the old stump an officers sword. badly
rusted, and also an officers belt bearing
the initials r. II. L. We went back tl
the house and secured a spade and hoe
and returning TO the spot. dug all around
the stump, and soon unearthed a human
skeleton with a staff officers uniform
nearly rotted away.
After putting the remains into a box
we sent a telegram TO Washington. and
the name Of the officer, for his remains
they proved TO be, was soon ascertained
from the rolls in the office Of the Secre-
tary OF War The young officers name
was Robert II. Lane. 1 went down TO
Alexandria. but returned to Thompson's
house a few days thereafter. a brother
OF the dead officer, who lived in New York
city, had been notified and had been
down there and taken the remains away
] saw him a fortnight after in Washing
ton and related to him my strange and
uncanny experience Of that eventful
night. He produced a photograph OF g
young lady, and I recognized In the fea-
lures, my strange visitor on the evening
of July 3, 1872. He then told me that tho
photograph was one his brothers hancee
had had taken not long prior to his
brothers untimely death on the Chantilly
field. When she heard of his death she
was broken hearted, and lived not long
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