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Johnson's Island Confederate Cemetery

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Bronze statue of a Confederate soldier, sculpted by Sir Moses Ezekiel, is seen through the rows of gravestones at Johnson's Island Confederate Cemetery.

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David Bush, left, chair of the Friends and Descendants of Johnson's Island Civil War Prison, speaks with students Gabe Feazell, center, of Daytona, Florida, and Caitlyn Baldwin, right, of Tiffin, about their archaeological finds of the day on the Civil War prison site on Johnson's Island. Feazell's great, great grandfather Robert Smith was a prisoner on the Island's Bloc 4, where the dig is occouring.

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Lu Kinstle, of Nova, Ohio, looks at a bronze statue of a Confederate soldier.

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A marker for the tomb of an unknown Confederate Soldier among the gravestones at Johnson's Island Confederate Cemetery.

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A marker for the tomb of an unknown Confederate Soldier among the gravestones at Johnson's Island Confederate Cemetery.

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David Bush, left, chair of the Friends and Descendants of Johnson's Island Civil War Prison, speaks with students Gabe Feazell, center, of Daytona, Florida, and Caitlyn Baldwin, right, of Tiffin, about their archaeological finds.

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Bronze statue of a Confederate soldier, sculpted by Sir Moses Ezekiel, is seen through the rows of gravestones at Johnson's Island Confederate Cemetery.

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Matthew Rastatter, left, and Kaitlin Spagnoli, of Akron, walk through the gravestones at Johnson's Island Confederate Cemetery.

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Matthew Rastatter, left, and Kaitlin Spagnoli, of Akron, walk through the gravestones at Johnson's Island Confederate Cemetery.

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Matthew Rastatter, left, and Kaitlin Spagnoli, of Akron, walk through the gravestones at Johnson's Island Confederate Cemetery.

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Kaitlin Spagnoli, left, and Matthew Rastatter, right, of Akron, walk through the gravestones at Johnson's Island Confederate Cemetery.

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Bronze statue of a Confederate soldier seen through the rows of gravestones at Johnson's Island Confederate Cemetery.

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Gabe Feazell, left, of Daytona, Florida, and Caitlyn Baldwin, right, of Tiffin, bag their archaeological finds at the Civil War prison site on Johnson's Island. Feazell's great, great grandfather Robert Smith was a prisoner on the island where the dig is occouring.

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