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
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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