" ...lack of artifacts with the interment makes identification nearly impossible. The location of the burial site along the south bank of the railroad cut suggests the soldier was killed during intense fighting on July 1, 1863. The location and orientation of the burial is consistent with renderings of Confederate graves on the Elliot Map which depicts a number of interments laid out perpendicular to the railroad cut in this location.
The recovery of what is thought to be Confederate buck & ball ammunition in context to the burial lends to the theory this may be a Confederate soldier. It is speculated that this soldier may have been a member of General Davis's 2nd Mississippi or 55th North Carolina Regiments who were retreating to the railroad cut late morning of July 1, 1863.
...... One must note, for example, that nearly 150 men of the 6th Wisconsin Regiment were also killed in the field on this day. "
Edited from the CWT post, from 2006. I only edited it so heavily because sometimes TMI takes away from what happened in these places, and who exactly that may have been who was found buried there. I don't know, no wish to sound like a fruitbat but maybe a reason this place has such a sobering effect on so many of us is that we're standing in the middle of a cemetery, on sacred ground. Men still buried there almost where they last saw Earth- and in a terrible struggle.
The Eliot Map is dreadful to look at. Anyone else have an awful time with it? First time I saw the thing, thought I was looking at artist's shading like they do, with little lines then understood all of them were graves, bodies of soldiers.
Given the evidence, have to be inclined to believe the grave uncovered was Confederate. Kind of wish he had not been discovered, had been allowed to rest where he was. Not sure I'd point one out to anyone. Seems a shame after all this time, if he's not to be identified, let him have his cemetery on the ground he fought for, win or lose.