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1800s soldier buried again

Monday, 02 August 2004

Associated Press

FORT LARAMIE - An unidentified soldier from the frontier era whose body was found during an archaeological survey has been laid to rest for at least a second time.

A Wyoming Army National Guard honor guard oversaw Friday's re-internment ceremony at Fort Laramie National Historic Site. Two site employees carried the wooden box to the grave while the honor guard stood at attention. An American flag was laid on the coffin and then folded and presented to site Superintendent George Helfrich.

A volunteer sang "Amazing Grace."

The man was reburied after a winter of research on him. "The archaeological research will lead to a better understanding of life at Fort Laramie," Helfrich said.

"Forensics of the young soldier may help us find out what it was like to be a young man on a military post in the mid-19th century. It's only fitting that we re-inter the remains with a ceremony due to any soldier."

Dena Sedar, who based her thesis on the research, determined that the soldier was Caucasian, 23, and 5 feet, 4-1/2 inches tall. She concluded that he was a member of the cavalry because of the insignia on buttons found with his remains and signs of vertebrae stress typical of frequent riders.

Also, the cavalry tended to enlist shorter men.

She thinks he died between 1859 and 1867, based on the design of the buttons and the burial location. "From the evidence, he was in good health, and there was no visible trauma, so we think he may have died from a disease," Sedar said.

Further investigation might have revealed if he raised in the United States or Europe - many frontier soldiers were immigrants - but there was not enough funding for isotope or DNA testing.

Sedar said facial reconstruction is being done.

The remains were put in a regulation wooden box that is shorter than a typical coffin. Research leader Danny Walker said soldiers at the Little Big Horn Battlefield were reburied in similar coffins.

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/08/02/build/wyoming/45-soldierburied.inc

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