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Unknown Civil War Soldier Gets His Name
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There are thousands of Civil War soldiers buried in national cemeteries across the nation labeled as "unknown."
But one soldier who fought and died on a Georgia battlefield never made it to a proper resting place and remained unidentified until only recently.
GPB's Edgar Treiguts tells us about one researcher's singular effort to give a name to the "unknown soldier" of Kennesaw Battlefield.
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