Gettysburg battle bullets found embedded in tree 148 years later
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On the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg, historians call them "Witness Trees," the dwindling number of trees that were present when the titanic 1863 battle took place there.
Last week, park officials found a new one — although fallen — with two bullets still embedded in its trunk 148 years later.
"The real witnesses to the battle . . . are still here," John Heiser, Gettysburg National Military Park historian, said Tuesday, "even though they can't talk to us. . . . They're the last living witnesses to this singular event."
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