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Brev. Brig. Gen'l
- Joined
- Feb 20, 2005
- Location
- Right here.
I was going through some of my files today and I found a story I had archived from the June, 1996 issue of Civil War News which reported on human bones found by a visitor to the Gettysburg National Battlefield Park on March 19 of that year. The story tells us it was most probably a confederate soldier.
The article quotes then-park historian Kathy Georg Harrison saying as many as 1200 to 1500 bodies of soldiers who fought in the Battle of Gettysburg are unaccounted for and therefore are still buried close to where they fell or near hospital sites somewhere in the 22 square miles [then] of the battlefield park.
So when you visit the park, remember the entire park is also a cemetery.
The article quotes then-park historian Kathy Georg Harrison saying as many as 1200 to 1500 bodies of soldiers who fought in the Battle of Gettysburg are unaccounted for and therefore are still buried close to where they fell or near hospital sites somewhere in the 22 square miles [then] of the battlefield park.
So when you visit the park, remember the entire park is also a cemetery.