Bones find renews Civil War dispute
October 1, 2009 | Posted by javal City workers made a startling discovery in Socorro Tuesday when they dug up a human skull and pieces of a casket reopening a fight over what may be a Civil War cemetery.
The February 1862 Battle of Valverde brought wounded Confederate soldiers to Socorro, and some historians believe those who later died were buried under what are now a paved street and the backyard of a local family.
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