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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ben Finley

A Virginia museum found 4 Confederate soldiers' remains. It's trying to identify them

Confederate Remains Williamsburg - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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 were actually from the Civil War, when a makeshift hospital operated nearby and treated gravely wounded Confederate soldiers.

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