2018 Year in Review: #2

Our second-most-read post from 2018 involved a recent discovery from the war’s first major battle:

2) Limb Pit at Manassas National Battlefield Continues to Show the Horrors of Civil War Medicine by Paige Gibbons Backus (August 27, 2018)

Workers digging at a construction project on the Manassas National Battlefield discovered a limb pit that had hitherto remained undisturbed for 156 years.