Remains of 28 Civil War soldiers identified in funeral home storage

Share The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are receiving burial services across the country. As first reported by the Associated Press, their discovery concludes a decades-long mystery about their whereabouts while highlighting numerous stories previously lost to history. Copper and cardboard urns housing the cremated remains spent the past “several decades” housed inside a Seattle funeral home’s storage facilities, according to the AP on November 4th. While each container included the names of the deceased, none of them included markers indicating any clear ties…

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