McRaven House - Civil War Ghosts
Several weeks later the Colonel was awakened by a noise in his bedroom. He fell back asleep in his rocking chair, only to be awakened again by the motion of someone rocking the chair from behind. He leapt up, and there before him was the figure of a man. Upon closer examination, he realized it was his missing friend, Capt. McPherson. Joy turned to horror as he noticed that the side of the Captain's head was mutilated and his clothes torn and wet. The Captain weakly stated that he had been beaten and thrown into the river by former Confederates. He told the Colonel that his murder should not be avenged, for he did not want the next generation to grow up hating them like this one did.
Capt. McPherson's ghost still wearing his Union Army uniform has been seen roaming the ground's at the McRaven House during the day and haunts the streets of Vicksburg by night.
Almost a year after the siege May, 1864, John Bobb had McRaven House returned to him. Soon after moving back in he found a group of six drunken Union soldiers picking flowers from his garden. Bobb angry, ordered them to leave immediately, the soldiers cursed at him and refused to leave, so John picked up a brick and threw it at them, knocking a sergeant to the floor. The soldiers left, vowing to come back for revenge. Bobb reported the incident to the Federal Commander of Vicksburg, Gen. Henry W. Slocum who dismissively said he would admonish those responsible. Upon returning to the gates of his home, Bobb was met by 25 Union troops who took him to Stout's Bayou, about 100 yards from the house, and fatally shot him in the head and back. Bobb's death was the first recorded act of violence perpetrated by Union troops after the siege.
John Bobb's ghost often appears to visitors in a room just off McRaven's main foyer, his apparition is usually stood in the corner of the room. His ghost has also been seen at Stout's Bayou at the spot where he was murdered. The ghosts of civil war soldiers are seen in the grounds of the house by startled tourists from time to time
McRaven House was eventually sold to William Murray in 1882. Murray and his wife Ellen Flynn raised four daughters and three sons in McRaven. William Murray died at the house in 1911, his wife Ellen died there in 1921, their daughter Ida died in 1946, and a son died in 1950.
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