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Civil War remains dug up as looting reported
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/04/ap_exhumed_040908/

{EXCERPT} , By Melanie Dabovich - The Associated Press Posted : Wednesday Apr 9,
2008 11:55:07 EDT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Working in secret, federal archaeologists have dug up the
remains of dozens of soldiers and children near a Civil War-era fort after an
informant tipped them off about widespread grave-looting.

The exhumations, conducted from August to October, removed 67 skeletons from the
parched desert soil around Fort Craig — 39 men, two women and 26 infants and
children, according to two federal archaeologists who helped with the dig.

They also found scores of empty graves and determined 20 had been looted.

The government kept its exhumation of the unmarked cemetery near the historic
New Mexico fort out of the public’s eye for months to prevent more thefts.

The investigation began with a tip about an amateur historian who had displayed
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