The Cashtown Inn was built in 1797, so even had it not been for the Civil War, it has every right to be haunted.
During the Civil War, however, the inn was a Confederate Army base, then as a hospital for the wounded. In those days of surgery without anesthetics, surgeons who didn't wash their hands, dirt everywhere, and no disinfectants save a bottle of alcohol (of the drinking type), the mortality rate was high. The hospital/inn was no exception to the rule, and today, the Cashtown Inn - Room 4, in particular - still hosts the spirits of those dead soldiers.
Room 4 experiences frequent knocking on the door; when the guest opens the door, no one is to be seen. Outside the inn, the blurred form of a Confederate soldier was captured on film in the year 1900. Furthermore, a guest heard the distinctive sound of horses outside his window late one night, only to see an empty area when he looked out the window.
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought almost one hundred and fifty years ago, but some things (and people) don't fade that easily.
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