The National Park Service has discovered and excavated a Civil War surgeon’s burial pit at Manassas National Battlefield Park. In partnership with forensic experts at the Smithsonian, we recovered two Union soldiers and several amputated limbs from the Battle of Second Manassas. This is the first time an intact surgeon’s burial pit from the Civil War has been studied by professional archeologists. The two soldiers will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery later this summer. Read the full s