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. The copper box was found Monday embedded in the stone pedestal of a statue of General Robert E Lee, who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia during the bloody conflict between the North and the South. A time capsule buried 130 years ago in the base of a statue of a Confederate general revealed its secrets on Tuesday – bullets, buttons and currency from the 1861-65 US Civil War along with other artifacts.
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