US EditionVirginia Museum Found 4 Confederate Soldiers' Remains. It's Trying to Identify Them
- Archaeologists at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation discovered and reinterred four Confederate soldiers' remains in 2023 near the Powder Magazine in Williamsburg, Virginia.
- The discovery arose while excavating an 18th-century gunpowder storage site and was linked to a Civil War-era makeshift hospital treating gravely wounded Confederate soldiers from the 1862 Battle of Williamsburg.
- The team found one skeleton with a Minié ball in the spine, three amputated legs, and used archival handwritten lists naming more than 60 hospitalized soldiers to narrow identities to four men from Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Virginia.
- Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg’s archaeology director, said, "It is the key," referring to the lists, and emphasized the need for "ironclad" DNA and genealogy evidence because identification from 19th-century remains is rare and challenging.
- The remains were respectfully reburied at Cedar Grove Cemetery alongside other Battle of Williamsburg Confederate soldiers, with ongoing efforts to identify them through extensive genealogy work and possible DNA matches.
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Virginia museum trying to identify remains of 4 Confederate soldiers
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human skull.
Museum Tries to Identify Remains of 4 Confederate Soldiers
Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human skull. The team carefully unearthed four skeletons, including one with a bullet in the spine, and three amputated legs. They quickly surmised the bones...
A Virginia Museum Found 4 Confederate Soldiers' Remains. It's Trying to Identify Them
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human skull.
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