The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-13
CAPT. DAMS GHOST STORY.
IT BRINGS TROUBLE TO THE TRAT-
ELLING GROCER yMzN,s MIND.

Federated By Mr.. Kittie. Nrr. gilbert us
Unable, Unin Hc FIuds Mr.. Klrtie,s Ad.
dress. TO Decide Nhrther Capt. Dan Esa
n Dronm or whethev re MERELY Liea.
"onc Of three things is certain" said John
Gilbert, the travelling groceryman, and I
would rejoice II some person would only satisfy
my mind as to which ono IL Is, for I can't do IL
myself. Did my old friend, Capt. Dan Culver.
dream or docs he liel Or is Lew Kittle n mind
readcr' II / only knew Lew kittlc I might Be
able to form a judgment, but ! don't know him.
I never heard of him until Capt. Dan mem
toned him in connection with this matter that
has got me guessing, and the Captain has for
gotten whore he lives. So that's the way the
thing stands and I'm in a auandary.
The way.it camo to happen was that 1 was
at Pittsburg not long ago and almost the first
man I stumbled on was my old and fevercd
friend. Capt Dan Culver; don't know what
regiment Capt. Dan was in during the late war,
every big battle an d was wounded twenty.
eight times at Gettysburg before they could get
",Hullo, joint said he. Which way yoa
II told him I thought I'd go Town and look
some q the West v,rgini. country over.
Fieia:; said Grl h. .nS A ,isi i' link / T Tosa e W y! Lo %1ii
"",,puring the hot times of the war, 1 supposer
NO, BIT, Salu Napt. Dhn. since the war;
saw. a heap and did a lot OF things then thai
GSE : :, ssa hsT Ss f t%enS %y I aim as f sss hos ss " f Fas %as
St Sre shS ssv on t PRsy Sor r1Shs: Of I &C. f Up ana day s ~ t my
battle, and imrnediately got to work, ana
C when we guilt mi, and turned in fer supper sid e
nhSsp %stifrest s% days action atiorpGgfs ever s paa in n without tssss
Mad Msrs. c csPpfsih.. Smith sniS he. : "Mhyl /. thu eSS ., f tSs
seventh day." That was a fact. ! had fought
all through those seven days, and had been %
didn't know until l turned in for supper that
day L l,n hat instead Of ,stkkippins one meal meal had
was the battle Of
= This last time you were in West Virginia,
much time. What did you say made you re-
member it so wolir
Virginia that makes me remember 1t. Whas
pal, bearers to a dead ghost that's all. Only
II must have looked as IL I was surprised q
little, for Capt. Dan Immediately said:
II don't wonder, at you. l give .you my
in shosts before that, and i hate like bla!es to
s %sm that ,b ! be ihsy ;. IN w ,em i, nG tSs., WHY; l. ! re 70,
came e me and.
this @'M Snnnen gsTt in Of c wsst ., Virginia did you say
"'Didn.t say, replied Capt. Dan. but it was
sSmn ss m noSesF w sSIiGat{Si Nave T u i l Sss pst Up p ' Is
s% ssns ,S,i in ,t the WHEELING ag t Sis1TIct IT, when 1es, P sSiS
aelds, made a rush for Clover River. and I
Joined the procession: That gold i, mine IN was
miners who found it, and the way the miners
happened to lose it was that when the Indians
learned Sn3 a't that tn the ins m Miner had aV Been no@dfo found they tses
slipped down and tomnahawked the fnders Of
h. had in never Ss 'R Ssen found 6nG pn again 'G %ntH i this tn si %,1f Z
speak Of; and everybody was wild, They
region ~t because ssn th %He fou rniy ts sSs 1 as a matter nne4 spe q
fact the lost mine hadn't been found at all
in succession. men disrins eagerly in the
ground along Indian, Run, near the old battle,
away and disappeared when approached by tho
mountaineers the mountaineers had jumped at
ghosts Of the murdered miners who had lost the
mine, and that they came back to locate the
the Story gFo get around ,Sl sp shat iie H iosa 1 mine i had
been found; and when the eontingent was with
Of wiId-eyed and disguised prospectors, and the
only thing most Of them were prospecting, for
s M%s lGr the ino sfo fye Of tSs amazing %HnR' Of sSe lost whD % hsa
But 1 was kind o"elad 1 came. anyhow. for 10
fsIS Where %s the ,S SpPSS s,tIe St Rich & hl0SMf dust SEsr w sns
fought-the only hot fight Of the war that I
missed. ia have been in it al right, though.
and it was too far to walk. l was looking the
knew whas he was talking about came along.
Them monntalneers seen them chaps
fedeEste Lieutenant men, tryin, to bury him"
with the battle Held. began to think that i, had
and wasn't long finding out that thore wasn't
a shanty or a tent or even a bush hat had
the edge Of the battle field, though, stood an old
weather-beaten frame house, and it didn't seem
to be . GSsSsqR much i, | a 11fsa s s Rrf he. !! IVY Il Taf that
house is haunted the worst kind"
H"YsS can laugh q you want TO-" said the
nativs, but ask ANYBODY, Ground 3, here. Ask
prised to find that he was the man who had
made made the queer Temsrk on III the battle deld
house a;W R9f what said I h had . 4seFa a d std 4. bunk in
that house, and I've stayed in it two or three
nights; but as ! need a nights sleep now and
T hH%'' Was 50 al lYi Lew Kiitie said. and took
enough, and l turned in about 10 O'Clock, and.
soon o sSand dhs ssi Risn' Td don 94i kn n1S s% what time sf L
was when l woke. but Il wasn't hot and sui.
cold IN the room that " ] s GHE in the BUNK.
The room seemed TO be flled with q luminous.
Of Whaf Il al ml meant Mh srsd / u Trs o esz'e of tho 10 t %iss
appeared the forms OF eight ghostly men, their
figures 6ladoWy but distinct, ana al CIdd IN
tattered uniforms OF tho Confederate Army,
The ghostly figures marched two by two, ana
carried n stretcher.
"'ThepS Jaw, lying In a far corner of the room,
rigid az -orpst like, the spectral figure Off
man in ,Ie uniform OF a Confederate Licuten-
ant. This ghost was plainly a dead one. The
eight ghosts with the misty stretcher halted
it 10 his mouth 4 ,.-ank-or that's the waYi y
down, lifted the de9 lie Ienderiy from tho
floor and placed it 81 stretcher. Then tho
eight.took hold and raised the bier with the dead
ghost on II and moved with It slowly and ST.
iently away. j saw them in their Rhostly going
Into the mist from which they had come and tho
mist disappeared. The deadly chill left the
"M y Y head was in sonnet of a .h.rl 70.
TO sleep again. When ! woh.- was broad day
light. ! got up.