Civil War Ghosts of Atlanta by Jim Miles

Author:Jim Miles
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2013-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

The Bulloch House

In 1838, James and Martha Bulloch left the coast for Roswell with six children and six slaves. They bought a ten-acre lot and secured a noted architect, Willis Ball of Connecticut, who produced what is considered to be one of the South’s best examples of authentic temple-style Greek Revival. Timber was felled on the property and aged. The structure, made of heart of pine, has two fifty-four-foot beams in the attic. The wood was hand sawed and fastened with wooden pegs and hand-forged nails. Slaves dug local clay and fired all the bricks. This became the home of Theodore Roosevelt’s mother.

During the Civil War, two family members served in the Confederate navy, while another worked for the Union army. The Bullock women found themselves exiled in Connecticut. They sent care packages of soap, clothing and necessities to Southern acquaintances and collected money to benefit Confederate prisoners held in the North.

After Sherman’s arrival in Roswell, Union cavalry camped on the grounds and certainly made use of the structure itself.

The ghost of Bulloch Hall is related to an eighteenth-century event involving a fourteen-year-old slave girl who fell into a well behind the house and died. She has frequently been heard crying, often from the well, and making attic and porch lights turn on and off. It is said that she was in charge of candles and lanterns in the house, and today, candles not only blow themselves out but also occasionally light spontaneously while at other times they cannot be extinguished. Employees say rocking chairs on the porch move when there is no wind, even speeding up and slowing down, and window curtains sway.

Two ghost tour operators, Joe and Dianna Avena, went out to eat with neighbors and then set out to explore Bullock Hall. At the structure, the neighbor woman felt uncomfortable, so she and Dianna sat in the car while the men scouted the grounds. As they approached the porch, the women saw the curtains in a second-floor window start to shake violently, as if they had been seized by two hands and been vigorously pulled back and forth. When the four drove away, the lights instantly turned off. Later inquiry revealed that the exterior lights were on a timer, which turned them on at dusk and off at dawn. The lights were not motion activated.

Hauntedgeorgia spent a night investigating haunted locales around Roswell. Members were particularly interested in Bulloch Hall, where they saw the flickering lights in the attic and on the porch, and on video, they captured “a weird shadowy figure” that ran in front of a tree “VERY QUICKLY” just one second after the porch lights extinguished themselves. The investigators also captured an EVP, a rattle, heard twice “very loud, very clear.” One participant said it “sounded like a door closing and rattling.”

The team continued to the Old Roswell Mill Ruins, dating partially from the Civil War, where a picture showed “a man wearing Civil War era clothing and a hat” standing near the mill.

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