Vicksburg National Military Park

The 47-day siege of 1863 left nearly 37,000 casualties across this Mississippi River city. Park rangers document dozens of reports annually: phantom soldiers seen at dusk walking between monuments, the sound of drums at dawn, and a glowing figure near the Illinois Memorial. The USS Cairo ironclad, sunk in 1862 and raised in 1964, sits nearby — witnesses report a ghostly crew member pacing its deck.