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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Digging for Answers at Caulk's Field-- Part 1

From the Jan. 23, 2013, Chicago Tribune "Digging for answers from 1814 battle" by Candy Thomson.

They're looking for the DNA of a battle that helped turn the tide of the war and lay just 6 inches below a Maryland corn field.  For nearly two centuries musket balls, cannister and other artifacts waited to tell the story of that August night when a British raiding party battle American militia.

Cadaver sniffing dogs and history buffs with metal detectors are sweeping the field to discover what happened.

According to archaeologist Julie Schablitsky: "This battlefield is frozen in time.  It was a pasture 200 years ago, and its a pasture now.  If Capt. Parker or Col. Reed came by today, they'd know exactly where they were."

Sir Peter Parker, a British Marine captain led around 170 troops who fought a group of American militia of about the same number led by Col. Philip Reed.

From mid-August to mid-September, Maryland was a war zone.  People lived in terror, houses were burned, people taken away, Washington burned and Fort McHenry attacked..

I'd Never heard of This Battle Before the Article.  --Brock-Perry

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