The Warren House

Built in 1840 by Guy L. Warren, this Federal-style home became Confederate headquarters and a field hospital during the 1864 Battle of Jonesboro, then served the same purpose for Union forces once the town fell. The operating room was on the second floor and the dying room on the third, with a window reportedly used to discard amputated limbs; the dead and wounded were said to be piled three deep in the yard behind the house. Convalescing soldiers carved their names into the plaster, some of which are still visible today, and a bullet once lodged in the wall along with cannonballs in the yard attested to the fighting nearby. Visitors report a soldier's figure holding a candle at an upstairs window and a bloodstain that persists on the attic floor; the Confederate cemetery across the street carries its own haunted reputation.