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Posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 12:30 am

By Barbara Reina For Columbia-Greene Media | 0 comments

The skeletal remains of a soldier who died in battle during the American Civil War in Louisiana may be those of Freeman Clapper, an early 19th-century resident of Valatie.

During the Civil War, many young men died in battle. North and South, Union and Confederate soldiers were at opposite ends of handguns, rifled-muskets and artillery. Today, officials, North and South, are working together to solve the mystery of the fallen soldier who officials believe to be Clapper, the only known enlisted man from the Valatie Volunteers who was killed in action in 1864 in a battle at Cane River Crossing, Louisiana, where the skeleton was recently found.

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