Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the ...

Archeologists working for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation discovered the remains of four Confederate soldiers. The crew ...

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers - but nothing linking them to the Civil War ... and their unit before their remains ...

1861 — three days before the Battle of First Manassas, which is considered to be the first battle of the Civil War. The Smithsonian determined the soldiers' approximate ages (most were younger ...

Civil War soldiers Pvt. Philip Shadrach ... Union soldiers and two civilians in commandeering a train in Georgia, before driving it north while demolishing Confederate railroad tracks and ...