Graves containing the skeletal remains of four Civil War soldiers and three amputated human legs are the latest discoveries to come out of an archaeological excavation at a 161-year-old battle site in Virginia.
In 2021, archaeologists with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (CWF), a living-history museum, began examining the site, which contains the Powder Magazine, a central storehouse where the Confederate army kept its ammunition. The octagonal structure was originally commissioned in 1714 and was renovated in the 1880s. However, prior to the dig, there was no indication that soldiers had been buried there, according to a statement.
