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Four Confederate Soldiers’ Remains Found in Williamsburg
Archaeologists at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation uncovered four Civil War era remains at a site tied to a colonial gunpowder store. One skull showed a bullet in the spine and two amputated legs bore Minié bullets. DNA hints possible matches among Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina and Virginia regiments. Remains reinterred in a Williamsburg cemetery as researchers pursue identities.
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