1. CIVIL WAR BONES FOUND-- The May 14th Nashville (Tn) Tennessean reports that construction workers at the former Through the Green Golf Course near the intersection of Columbia Pike and Southwest Parkway in Franklin, Tn., have uncovered bones, teeth and copper buttons.
The copper buttons are with the Union eagle and the thought is that the unidentified Union soldier was killed in the retreat following the Battle of Franklin and hastily buried in a two-foot grave.
2. MOLLUS-- Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, also called the Loyal Legion. Organized by officers April 15, 1865, after the Lincoln assassination.
3. GEORGE DEWEY-- famous for the Spanish-American War Battle of Manila Bay "You may fire when ready," was executive officer on the USS Colorado at Fort Fisher.
The Civil War, It's All Around Us. --Old B-R
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
