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Haro Soldier's Bonea FmiatLWorkmen on the return avenue at Culp’s Jim made n remark able Jind hat Saturday morning, when the bones of eighteen Union soldiers were unearthed. The bones were in n fair condition and with them were found a zitimber of United States belt plains, belts n:itl parts oj shoes. The remains wore carefully removed by Llio orders of liie BaUleliold Commission and turned over to Superintendent Calvin Unmil ton, of tho National Cemetery, who line tbo bones in safe* beeping,awaiting tbo orders of the Quart-emitter-General.It was originally intended to assent the bones in complete skeletons and buiy each supposed body in a separate box in n separate grave, but owing to the bones being disturbed in the excavation it was thought better not to do this but to bury them all together in n common grave, marking it with a slab tolling how and where the bodies where found, It is likely the latter course wili be followed. As the Unknown11 plot la foil they will have to be burned in il new part of the cemetery, at the edge of the semi-circle ot graves, directly north of the National monument,Whnt makes tho (hiding of the bones romnrkrtble is in the fact that the fall after the battle, when tho soldier’s bodies neru removed from the places svheic they had been hastily burned to tho National Cemetery, a careful search was made lo make mire that ah lhe bodies had been so removed,Of cuurnu nothing can be determined positively as to what regiment the dead soldiers belonged. The ground near where they weie hurried was fought over by tho 29th Pa., the 147th Pa,, 5th Ohio, 8-Jtli New York regiments.
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Gettysburg Star and Sentinel
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Sep 26, 1899
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