Near Piney Flat’s crossroads, located at the intersection of Highway 19E/11W, Allison Road and Piney Flats Road, is a grove of trees said to be haunted by the sound of a dying Confederate soldier’s cries for help.In Charles Edwin Price was the first to document this ghost in his 1992 book Haints, Witches, and Boogers: Tales from Upper East Tennessee:In a little grove of trees near Piney Flats, the story goes, three Union soldiers were ambushed by Confederates. When the smoke cleared, two soldiers lay dead and a third was gravely wounded. The sharpshooters moved on to other prey, leaving the wounded man to help suffer all night, calling out piteously for someone to come help him. The sniper’s minié ball had smashed through his right leg, severing an artery. The man ripped his shift and applied a makeshift tourniquet, but the bleeding wouldn’t stop. No one answered his calls for help, and by morning he was dead (Price, p. 39)In his 2008 book Haunted Kingsport: Ghosts of Tri-City Tennessee Pete Dykes retells the story, but adds that people are to his day hearing the screams of a wounded man:At least a dozen people have reported hearing the pitiful cries for help that come from a grove of old trees near the crossroads in Piney Flats. A number of times the sound has been investigated, and on at least two occasions a frightened individual has called 911 to report the desperate, urging sound. (Dykes, p. 80) Though the exact location has not been divulged, if you are driving through the crossroads one cool summer night and hear screams of agony, it might just be from a Confederate soldier whose name has been forgotten to time.