Several Civil War bullets known as Minie balls were also found in the container along with a piece of wood with a bullet lodged in it. What was found was an engraving from the Apedition of Harper's Weekly depicting a woman weeping next to Lincoln's casket. The newspaper article had mentioned what would have been a rare 1865 photograph of assassinated president Abraham Lincoln in his casket but no such photo was found. "We thought everything would be soup and it's not soup so that's great," Ridgway said.Īn 1887 article in a Richmond newspaper had listed some of the items secreted away in the time capsule and they matched some of those found on Tuesday. "It's in better shape than we had expected," said Kate Ridgway, the state archaeological conservator, at a ceremony during which the 14x14x8 inch (35x35x20 centimeter) box was opened before live television cameras. The time capsule was opened on Tuesday by conservators at the Department of Historic Resources in Richmond and the contents were in relatively good condition, having suffered only a bit of water damage. It was taken down in September, one of a number of Confederate monuments removed in recent months. Lee's bronze statue was erected in 1890 in Richmond, the Virginia city that was the capital of the pro-slavery South during the Civil War. Lee, who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia during the bloody conflict between the North and the South. The copper box was found Monday embedded in the stone pedestal of a statue of General Robert E.
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