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01-10-09, 08:55 AM
Soldier’s bones found at Civil War site (http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/01/ap_civilwarbones_010809/)
SHARPSBURG, Md. — Cutting through a cornfield where soldiers were literally blown to bits on the bloodiest day of the Civil War, a hiker spied something near a groundhog hole: fragments of bone and a metal button, clotted with red clay.
He brought the remains to the visitors center at Antietam National Battlefield, where they were turned over to experts who made a stunning discovery: They belonged to a Union soldier from New York.
The remarkable find 146 years after the soldier perished is a reminder that the battlefield at Antietam is “ground that was basically changed forever by what happened on it,” Superintendent John W. Howard said Thursday.
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Information of NY units (http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/civil/civil_index.htm) during the ACW.
SHARPSBURG, Md. — Cutting through a cornfield where soldiers were literally blown to bits on the bloodiest day of the Civil War, a hiker spied something near a groundhog hole: fragments of bone and a metal button, clotted with red clay.
He brought the remains to the visitors center at Antietam National Battlefield, where they were turned over to experts who made a stunning discovery: They belonged to a Union soldier from New York.
The remarkable find 146 years after the soldier perished is a reminder that the battlefield at Antietam is “ground that was basically changed forever by what happened on it,” Superintendent John W. Howard said Thursday.
http://www.crwflags.com/FOTW/images/u/us-ny.gif
Information of NY units (http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/civil/civil_index.htm) during the ACW.