The Corner

Your Tax Dollars At Work

The Civil War battlefields at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania close at sunset. If you want to visit them after dark, you need a special permit and the direct supervision of a park ranger. This article in the Wash Post describes a recent excursion by the American Battlefield Ghost Hunters Society as its members, you know, looked for ghosts. It turns out they didn’t find any, but they did manage to keep a park ranger busy into the wee hours.

John J. Miller, the national correspondent for National Review and host of its Great Books podcast, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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