Black Civil War soldiers' graves, lost and found?

Somewhere in Houston lie the forgotten remains of Civil War-era soldiers, and HISD officials will meet with archaeologists on Monday to discuss plans for a dig to determine whether those graves are at the site of a proposed fine-arts school complex near downtown.

"There is a clear certainty there is a missing national cemetery in Houston," historical researcher Janet Wagner said Friday. "If HISD doesn't have it, somebody does". . .

Wagner said the first word that graves might be in a portion of the seven-acre site in the Fourth Ward came more than three years ago from Anthony Pizzitola, who . . . told Wagner and school officials that as a youth he heard that an African-American soldier cemetery was in the area.

Posted by David on April 17, 2004 7:02 PM