A few days ago, artists found a copper box believed to have been buried 130 years ago when removing the base of a statue of a Federal general, which was the second time capsule excavated at the site. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam posted a photo of the box on Twitter.
"It could be a time capsule that everyone has been looking for. According to an 1887 newspaper article, a statue of General Robert E. Lee of the Northern Virginia Army during the Civil War hides a time capsule with buttons and balls, Confederate currency, cards, rare photographs of assassinated President Lincoln in a coffin and other items that will open tuesday at 1 p.m.," Northam said in a subsequent tweet, "Experts believe there may be Civil War-era coins, books, buttons and even ammunition." ”
However, when it was opened, it was found that it was not the time capsule that was published in the newspapers in 1887, because it contained only three soaked books, a photograph of a damp cloth cover, and a coin. These objects appear to be souvenirs left by some of the workers who erected the statues to posterity. Last year, after the death of George Floyd, a black man killed by white Minnesota police, lee's statue became the focus of protests against racial justice. During the Civil War, the southern federal states separated from the United States to fight for slavery, which had been abolished in other parts of the United States.
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