Headstones of Civil War soldiers at Chartiers Cemetery are undergoing a resurrection of sorts
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Headstones of Civil War soldiers at Chartiers Cemetery are undergoing a resurrection of sorts

Bay City : MI : USA | May 26, 2012 at 9:21 PM PDT
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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But the Civil War veterans buried there were disappearing -- or rather, their headstones were. Many of the marble slabs, 250 pounds each and only 3 inches thick, had sunk so deep into the earth that they'd all but vanished. Now 65 of those 125 stones have been hoisted out of the dirt, cleaned and reset on... FULL ARTICLE AT Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
 
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