'Limb Pit' unearthed at Manassas…

"Owsley says the surgeons at Bull Run were skilled, though. He examined the cut ends of the bones under a microscope. They reveal tiny striations left by the saws. Owsley says they show that the surgeons sawed expertly: starting slowly to set the saw teeth, then quickly through the bone, then slowly on the way out to avoid exit damage."

I thought that bit was interesting.
 
This is an epic way to honor these two soldiers.

The old-fashioned coffins were being built for the remains of the two soldiers found in a battlefield "limb pit" four years ago. They are scheduled to be buried with military honors in Arlington National Cemetery on Sept. 6.

They will be the first burials in a new 27-acre section of the cemetery, officials have said.

To honor the soldiers, who were killed at the Second Battle of Manassas 156 years ago this month, the Park Service decided to build them coffins from their times. The remains will be wrapped in Civil War reproduction Union blankets. The wooden coffins will then be placed inside modern military caskets, the Park Service said.

But their remains will rest on wood cut from a 60-foot-tall tree that had fallen on the battlefield in a windstorm this year.


https://m.chron.com/news/article/Two-Union-soldiers-died-more-than-150-years-ago-13164777.php
 
This is an epic way to honor these two soldiers.

The old-fashioned coffins were being built for the remains of the two soldiers found in a battlefield "limb pit" four years ago. They are scheduled to be buried with military honors in Arlington National Cemetery on Sept. 6.

They will be the first burials in a new 27-acre section of the cemetery, officials have said.

To honor the soldiers, who were killed at the Second Battle of Manassas 156 years ago this month, the Park Service decided to build them coffins from their times. The remains will be wrapped in Civil War reproduction Union blankets. The wooden coffins will then be placed inside modern military caskets, the Park Service said.

But their remains will rest on wood cut from a 60-foot-tall tree that had fallen on the battlefield in a windstorm this year.


https://m.chron.com/news/article/Two-Union-soldiers-died-more-than-150-years-ago-13164777.php
Wonderful to have this further information. Thanks. It's obvious great respect is being shown to their remains.
 
The Associated Press reported yesterday that a Florida man searching for information about his great-great uncle, killed at the Second Battle of Bull Run, has criticized the Army's decision to bury the two soldiers found in 2014 as "unknown" without first conducting DNA testing. He claims evidence suggests one of the men might be his ancestor, William Garcelon Davis of the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry. Here's the story.
 
The article states that this is a first. Meaning the limb pit. Does that mean tnere are possible pits near every major battlefield? And if so what will become of them do you suppose? I feel the Army is under too tight a budget to identify each and every unknown.
 
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