"Ghosts of Atlanta" by Reese Christian

While I was in the Atlanta area, I picked up "Ghosts of Atlanta: Phantoms of the Phoenix City" by Reese Christian.  It was a great book to have with me while in the area.

This was a nice, well written book that was still a quick read.  Reese gets to the point on the stories, and I appreciate that.

I love a good ghost story, but I am curious about the events that got us to that point.  What crime, murder, or other strange event occurred?

The author covers 10 locations and ghostly tales.  They are all interesting, and they were all new to me.

I really enjoyed the fact that many involved the Civil War (this IS Atlanta).  I enjoyed reading about a plantation turned restaurant that also has a door from Andersonville.  The exciting story of a man killing another man and fleeing to Texas, never to be heard form again is just a side note story in one exciting chapter.  Reese Christian also covers the largest hotel fire in American history.  By the way, you can still get a room there.  There is a haunted horse on a carousel ride.  The creator of the Uncle Remus stories, John Bell Hood, General Sherman and Nathan Bedford Forrest III all show up too.