{"id":121113,"date":"2021-12-28T17:05:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T22:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=121113"},"modified":"2021-12-28T17:05:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T22:05:11","slug":"gen-lee-time-capsule-opened-2nd-go-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=121113","title":{"rendered":"Gen Lee time capsule opened, 2nd go ’round"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CNN<\/a> and others are reporting that the second time capsule underneath General Robert E Lee’s now-removed statue in Richmond, Virginia. Inside they found some of the items they were expecting, that were missing in the first lead time capsule discovered earlier<\/a> in the plinth’s removal.<\/p>\n

From CNN;<\/p>\n

A second time capsule that was recently found in the pedestal of Richmond, Virginia’s, Robert E. Lee statue was opened Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Items inside included an 1865 edition of Harper’s Weekly magazine with an clear image of a figure weeping over Abraham Lincoln’s grave; a Bible with a coin stuck to it; and a Richmond directory.<\/p>\n

Also found were more newspapers, books, coins, and letters. A mini\u00e9 ball, a type of bullet commonly used in the American Civil War, was also discovered.<\/p>\n

Conservators from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR) carefully opened the box and worked with caution. Water was found inside the box and its items had expanded, making it difficult for them to be removed.<\/p>\n

Kate Ridgeway, Virginia’s Archaeological Conservator and who led the box’s opening, said the artifact was a “little more wet than we had hoped for.”<\/p>\n

Crews now will continue to work on preserving and researching the items that were found inside the capsule over the next couple of days and weeks.<\/p>\n

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