I enjoyed the story about "Green Eyes" but I've camped out there many a night and never saw anything strange...but we did scare the heck out of some kids at Wilder Tower one night.

Wilder Tower is on the southern side of Chickamauga battlefield. It was built as an observation tower back when the Army ran the park. It is located on a little ridge that Col. Wilder’s brigade of mounted infantry was sitting on when Longstreet made his famous breakthrough a little ways to the north.

There are many statues and monuments there.

One weekend we were doing artillery (maybe infantry, it’s been a while back) and decided to go on a “walkabout” late Saturday night. We ended up at the tower and were sitting on the steps talking when we heard a car approaching. At first we thought it was one of the park rangers. When the car got a little closer, we realized it wasn’t a ranger. We figured (correctly, it turns out) that it was a bunch of kids going “parking”.

One of our guys (there were at least a dozen of us) said, “Everybody stand reeeaaal still,” which is exactly what we did. The kids (2 girls and 2 guys) pulled into the little parking area and got out of their car and started up the stairs that lead up the hill to the tower.

Someone must have shifted a little (we were doing a fair job of looking like statues—hiding behind statues and hiding in the shadows) because one of the kids said, “Hey! I just saw something move!” One of the other kids replied, “Aww, you’re stupid!” and continued up the steps.

By this time we couldn’t stand it any further and someone started going “wooooooooooooooh”, at which point the rest of us took up the cry/chant/wail.

I have never in my life seen four people get into a 2-door car and peel out of a parking lot in that short an amount of time.