Another case in point is Antietam, where the mass graves were relocated as
"individuals" later. Recently, three individually buried soldiers were found
in the woods nearby.
John Dendy
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> I am not sure if this is relevant, but grave relocation details often only
> removed the skull and larger bones in the 19th century. Where coffins were
> not present, entire legs and arms were left behind. This certainly was the
> case at the Little Big Horn battlefield and it happened at the 1846 San
> Pasqual Battlefield here in California. The latter burials got relocated
> to
> Old Town San Diego in the 1860s and then again to Point Loma in 1880.