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Mr. Galusha's Bones- Vicksburg Cemetery

A Western paper is responsible for the story that Mr. Galusha, a one-armed soldier, living near Aurora, Illinois, recently found the bones of his lost arm in a Vicksburg cemetery, where they had been buried after the seige. He identified the lost arm by a ring found on one of the fingers and preserved, the ring being numbered to correspond with the number of the little grave in which nothing but the arm was interred.

Northern Ohio journal (Painesville, Ohio) 20 Jul 1878

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