To the ghost tours, Madison Square is a battlefield first and a garden second. On October 9, 1779, French and American troops threw themselves against the British lines around Savannah in one of the bloodiest hours of the Revolution, and this ground lay close to the fighting. Guides tell of the fallen being buried hastily in mass graves nearby. A grim rumor, which Ghost City Tours admits it can't confirm, says one such grave lies under the square, and that not every man thrown into it was yet dead.

The figure seen most often here, according to the guides, is a solid black shadow shaped like a grown man. It drifts across the square, moving in and out of the pools of lamplight. Ghost City Tours says its guides have found the square a good place for EVP recordings and describes one voice telling them he had been 'shot through my heart.' Sergeant Jasper, who died carrying the colors, watches over all of it from his pedestal. The square is also a natural meeting point for tours of the Sorrel-Weed House on its western edge.