The box contained relics from the Civil War but no treasure for collectors.
The time box buried for 134 years Under the pedestal of the statue of Confederate General Robert Lee in the United States, he unveiled his mystery on Tuesday: Contains relics from the Civil War but no treasure for collectors.
A box or time capsule It is a receptacle that contains objects or documents representative of an era for future generations.
Inside, technicians from the Department of Historical Resources of the state of Virginia found, among other things, replied Minié, (ammunition from the civil war of 1861-1865), banknotes and coins issued by the Confederate government, newspapers and magazines, an 1887 almanac, books, a bible, and documents from the Masonic lodges in the region.
In an envelope there was two small wooden sculptures, the Masonic symbols of the square and the compass, and a Confederate flag.
In one of the books there was a marker with the drawn profile of General Lee.
The box also contained a fragment of a bomb used in the Battle of Fredericksburg, which was won by the Southerners in 1862.
The most striking document is the drawing of a woman kneeling in front of Abraham Lincoln’s coffin, assassinated on April 14, 1865. It had been published double page in Harper’s Weekly magazine two weeks after the events.
Not a trace, however, of a photo of the American president that could have driven the collectors’ market crazy.
The 12-inch copper box buried in 1887 it contained about sixty articles.
Its contents “are in better condition than we expected,” said Kate Ridgeway, director of the Department of Historical Resources for the state of Virginia, where the statue of General Lee is located.
The time box was found under the pedestal of the equestrian statue of General Lee, head of the Confederate army that defended slavery during the Civil War, which was inaugurated in 1890 in Richmond, the former capital of the secessionists, located in Virginia.
Many Americans consider this statue to be a symbol of slavery in the country and in September it was dismantled.
The statue of General Lee was targeted by protesters during anti-racist protests that erupted after the 2020 death of George Floyd, an African-American suffocated by the pressure of a white policeman’s knee, and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement (Las black lives matter).
During the Civil War, the Confederate South fought to maintain slavery, which was abolished during the war in the rest of the country. (I)
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