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  • A Civil War site discovered?[Knoxville-TN]{Camp Van Dorn}

    01/17/2007 11:47:42 PM PST · by FLOutdoorsman · 12 replies · 580+ views
    Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | 17 Jan 2007 | FRED BROWN
    Historians say burial ground found in city Members of the University of Tennessee's Archaeological Research Laboratory are using ground-penetrating radar to determine if Confederate soldiers from the Civil War-era Camp Van Dorn rest on property that now belongs to the city of Knoxville. Amateur historians believe they have found the long-sought burial site near the city's Malcolm Martin Park at Western Avenue. They are using a ground-mapping process with a geophysics survey system that records abnormalities below ground. Nicholas Herrmann, a research assistant professor in the anthropology program at UT and with the lab, is leading the early survey. He...
  • Centreville museum honors 63rd, 99th infantries

    03/07/2005 8:51:27 PM PST · by Calpernia · 18 replies · 770+ views
    Enterprise-Journal ^ | Dedication set for March 19 | Karen Freeman
    CENTREVILLE — Technical Sgt. Willie F. Overfelt never lived to walk on U.S. soil after April 7, 1945. The young World War II soldier, a member of the Army’s 63rd Infantry Division, died in battle in Germany that day. Now, nearly 60 years after his death, visitors to the Camp Van Dorn Museum of Centreville will see Overfelt’s name engraved on a memorial plaque — along with his battle helmet, which was found by a German soldier and returned. Sgt. Overfelt, along with the tens of thousands of fellow soldiers from the “Blood and Fire” 63rd Infantry and the 99th...