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The future of the West L.A. VA campus is uncertain. This is its history

The Los Angeles Times 06 Dec 2024
campus ... First came the blue-suited Yankees ... But there were also enough accounts of unsettling deaths, by suicide or “accident,” to make you wonder about the unreported ones, and the iceberg depths of damage beyond Minié balls and bayonets.
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Biting the Bullet: Civil War Wounds Explored

Walker & Catoosa County News 21 Oct 2024
On Saturday, Nov ... However, the “bite of the bullet” caused so much suffering and dying during the war. The minié ball was vicious, entering the body and biting a jagged path that was not often clear. × This page requires Javascript ... ....
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North Platte Station wrote 1st chapter in city’s Army story

The North Platte Telegraph 11 Nov 2023
Gen ... Lt ... “The missing Page has been nipped by Jack Frost and turned over to the government, the war hatchet is buried, the whiz of the Minié ball is no longer heard in our streets, and peace reigns on the breast of all,” the Republican proclaimed Feb ... .
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Bodies found near Powder Magazine identified as Confederate soldiers

Daily Press 09 Aug 2023
“A minié-style ball was lodged in his spine at the thoracic vertebra,” said staff archaeologist Ashley McCuistion.
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A Vermonter fights at Fredericksburg

Rutland Herald 03 May 2023
Eleazer A ... This is his story ... Gen ... Hiram Bixby, the 29-year-old farmer from Ludlow, who was near Hall in Company I, was hit by a Minié ball that went through his right forearm, then traveled through his chest and right lung, and exited near his spine.
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Mass grave dating to Civil War found in Colonial Williamsburg

The Virginian-Pilot 04 Mar 2023
Archaeologists don’t know how many individual remains are in the grave, or who they might belong to ... George B ... “We have found artifacts connected with Union troops, including minié balls for rifles that were only used by Union forces,” Gary said ... .
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A Quaker goes to war

Times Argus 29 Dec 2022
"My third day’s duty on the company favored with a Minié ball through the fleshy part of the thigh in front and just below the groin and one inch outside the main artery of the leg.
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Civil War collection on permanent display at winery

Beaumont Enterprise 03 Dec 2022
CENTREVILLE, Va. (AP) — D.P ... Opened in 1998, Newton’s White Oak Civil War Museum held thousands of Minié balls, belt buckles, buttons, bayonets, caps and other military items left behind in Stafford by U.S ... ....
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Civil War collection on permanent display at Virginia winery

The Virginian-Pilot 03 Dec 2022
CENTREVILLE — D.P ... Opened in 1998, Newton’s White Oak Civil War Museum held thousands of Minié balls, belt buckles, buttons, bayonets, caps and other military items left behind in Stafford by U.S ... D.P ... (James Baron/AP) ... He checked all the boxes.” ... .
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Treasured Civil War collection on permanent display at Centreville winery

The Roanoke Times 29 Nov 2022
Opened in 1998, Newton’s White Oak Civil War Museum held thousands of Minié balls, belt buckles, buttons, bayonets, caps and other military items left behind in Stafford by U.S.
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On history

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 07 Nov 2022
I discovered years ago the best way to learn about a city is to run through it. Literally ... I briefly wondered what they had lost ... A loose belt buckle, a dropped Minié ball, or even a Union blade would have made for a great Saturday morning story ... .
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Is the body key to understanding consciousness?

The Observer 02 Oct 2022
The invention of a bullet called the Minié ball with its greater accuracy, range, and muzzle velocity, increased the number of amputations, while the introduction of anaesthetics and antiseptics ...
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