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Lynchburg project seeks to find, ID unmarked Confederate graves in historic city cemetery
By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, April 22, 8:34 AM
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Archaeologists are working to find and identify more than four dozen unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers in Lynchburg’s historic Old City Cemetery.
The project, funded with state grants and private donations, is the cemetery’s largest effort to date to find and identify unmarked graves.
Media outlets report that about 50 graves were discovered Friday in the cemetery’s Confederate section. More graves are expected to be found.
Ted Delaney, the cemetery’s archivist and curator, said cemetery officials will try to match the gravesites with paper records that still exist.
For the rest: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...aa7080-ab40-11e2-9493-2ff3bf26c4b4_story.html
By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, April 22, 8:34 AM
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Archaeologists are working to find and identify more than four dozen unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers in Lynchburg’s historic Old City Cemetery.
The project, funded with state grants and private donations, is the cemetery’s largest effort to date to find and identify unmarked graves.
Media outlets report that about 50 graves were discovered Friday in the cemetery’s Confederate section. More graves are expected to be found.
Ted Delaney, the cemetery’s archivist and curator, said cemetery officials will try to match the gravesites with paper records that still exist.
For the rest: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...aa7080-ab40-11e2-9493-2ff3bf26c4b4_story.html