IN 2014 archaeologists explored the site of a Civil War-era prison camp in Columbia and uncovered three pits they say Union soldiers dug as crude shelter against the winter of 1864-65. One of the earthen pits on the grounds of the S.C. State Hospital held secret a half-dozen artifacts, too, left behind by a prisoner of war and then covered over by those who ran the prison known as Camp Asylum. The location of Camp Asylum will be destroyed by new development and the archaeology was to save as much information as possible before constructions began. Read more here: thestate/2014/01/27/3231027/archaeologists-unearth-pits-where.html#storylink=cpy
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:39:05 +0000
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