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Bones of Civil War dead reveal limb pit at Manassas
National Park Service archaeologists unearthed a buried limb pit from the Second Battle of Bull Run near Manassas Virginia. They found two Union soldiers’ severed limbs with a bullet embedded in Burial 1’s thigh bone, sparking plans for further study and possible reburial in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Bull Run
National Park Service
Manassas
Park Service
Brandon Bies
Smithsonian Institution
Bies
Manassas National Battlefield Park
Smithsonian
Karl Brunelheide
John Hennessy
Owsley
The
National Museum of Natural History
Brunelheide
Arlington National Cemetery
Washington Post Phonos
5Th New York Infantry
Second Bull Run
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History