The most haunted army base...

For sure Leavenworth has a few ghosts hanging out. Fort Monroe used to be loaded with them- 200 years of Privates at payday produced a lot of ghosts awol from their place of duty!
And VMI had a fair collection of old bones rolling around. Jackson Memorial (JM) Hall- the Cadet Chapel- is distinguished by a huge mural of the charge of the Cadets at New Market, and the bottom two floors of JM Hall is occupied by the VMI Museum- and next door to JM Hall is the Statue of "Virginia Mourning her Dead", buried at the base of which are a number of the Cadets killed at New Market. One of the responsibilities of the Corporal of the Guard is to check after taps that JM Hall is secure - and to walk down to the stage if it is open. Lit only by flashlight- many a Corporal of the Guard has had a personal experience with the Ghosts of Cadets of yesteryear charging forward to meet them (picture of a section of the mural below)- in particular Cadet William McDowell who still roams the post convinced that he disappointed his father by dying at New Market. Poor Cadet McDowell- and poor Corporal of the Guard- It's a very long walk down that aisle in the dark. Happy Halloween !
"A little removed from the spot where Cabell fell, and nearer to the position of the enemy, lay McDowell, it was a sight to wring one's heart. That little boy was lying there asleep, more fit, indeed, for the cradle than the grave. He was barely sixteen, I judge, and by no means robust for his age. He was a North Carolinian. He had torn open his jacket and shirt, and, even in death, lay clutching them back, exposing a fair breast with its red wound." (From An End of an Era by John S. Wise,
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