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FIND 1»MTHUNKNOWN’ HEi©ce Railroad Trackmen Unearth Well Preserved Body of Union Soldier at Cut:y The Battlefield of Gettysburg- one-[yi-Thurscwy afternoon yielded up an-r- other mute reminder of the struggle is, here a. half century ago, when work-Is,' men along the line of the Western iy t Maryland Railroad discovered the full st j skeleton of a man buried under less ie than a foot of earth at the side of the in I famous “Railroad Cut” west of town, id It is tlje 1000th. “Unknown” hero to : be found on the Battlefield-r-j Section Foreman D. M. Twomey dc was working in the vicinity with his gang, and having need of some dirt, directed the men to get it from the j bare path that leads from the rail-_ i road cut to the avenue above. Thev1 «■had barely commenced digging when they came upon the skeleton. The bones were all found, and were fair-■ ly well pi'eserved. Two teeth were j I missing. The heels of the shoes were intact and each had a heel plate of the horse shoe shape that was commonly used during the war period.Five regulation U. S. buttons of the “Eagle” type, and three iron bul-^ lets were found with the bones. The buttons will fix the identity of the skeleton as being that of a Union soldier. It was turned over to Acting Superintendent Koch, of the National Cemetery.IVFt:ylt;besusyori-resihimntf:niI:o:DDojP
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Gettysburg Star and Sentinel
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Aug 07, 1914
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