Explore this month through the lens of Southern spirits with this haunted book of days.
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- 1887 – North Carolina State University is founded in Raleigh. Among the haunted locations on campus is an old gymnasium turned theater, Frank Thompson Hall.
4 March
- 1866 – Alexander Campbell, founder of Bethany College, Bethany, WV, dies at his home and is buried in God’s Acre Cemetery.
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14 March
- 1862 – Federals capture the city of New Bern, North Carolina, home to the colonial Tryon Palace and the Attmore-Oliver House.
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17 March – St. Patrick’s Day
- 1862 – The Irish have played a tremendous role in Southern history. During the Battle of Antietam, fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland, the 69th New York Infantry, known as a the Irish Brigade, was sent into the nadir of battle along the Sunken Road. The heroism of these troops has since entered the realms of legend and ghost stories.
18 March
- 1919 – The night of the “Axeman’s Passover” when the self-described Axeman of New Orleans announced that he would pass through the city killing the occupants of any house not playing jazz.
19 March
- 1865 – First day of the Battle of Bentonville in North Carolina. The nearby Harper House serves as a field hospital.
20 March
- 1788 – A fire breaking out in the Bosque House on Chartres Street in New Orleans spreads to destroy much of the city.
- 2015 – Two young men are fatally shot in the 700 block of New Orleans Chartres Street. Echoes of this murder are still heard to this day.
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27 March
- 1814 – The Battle of Horseshoe Bend is fought near modern-day Dadeville, Alabama, pitting American forces under General Andrew Jackson against a Muscogee village of Tohopeka.
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29 March
- 1883 – Western Carolina Insance Asylum, now Broughton Hospital opens in Morganton, North Carolina.
30 March