Skull of Civil War Soldier to be Auctioned

[J. Beckert]

I agree, Toia. No one deserves to end up as a knick-knack in a collector's library. While we don't have to turn everything into a shrine, this was the right thing to do. Maybe Betty will shed some light on how she got Powell's skull returned to his family.

Hopefully this is a case that just slipped through the cracks because it was found so long ago. I know anytime an artifact or human remains are found while excavating today, the job abruptly halts. There was an archaeological dig on a job I worked on last year on the Delaware River. They couldn't move a shovel full of dirt unless a member of the Indian tribe was on the site.