Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork around the ‘hallowed ground’ of Gettysburg, this book explores the idea of a personal and historical ‘experience’ in connection with paradigms of memory, heritage, and patriotism. Using empirical research to ground these often vague concepts, the author explores the meaning of the ‘Gettysburg experience’ in experiences of the federal National Park Service and its ‘battlefield rehabilitation’ programme, battle re-enactors seeking a bodily, first-person perspective on the fog of war, and practitioners of the paranormal: ghost hunters who aim to connect with the war dead through techniques and media wholly foreign to ’normal’ regimes of commemoration.