Dismembered arm tells tale at new Civil War Medicine museum - USATODAY.com A Sharpsburg-area farmer is said to have found the human forearm while plowing a field two weeks after the 1862 battle of Antietam. Though there is little hope of identifying the young man who lost it, forensic experts may be able to discern his nationality and whether the arm was,  torn from his body by a bullet or artillery round. The arm’s owner was probably a small man less than 20 years old. 
 Dismembered arm tells tale at new Civil War Medicine museum - USATODAY.com

A Sharpsburg-area farmer is said to have found the human forearm while plowing a field two weeks after the 1862 battle of Antietam. Though there is little hope of identifying the young man who lost it, forensic experts may be able to discern his nationality and whether the arm was,  torn from his body by a bullet or artillery round. The arm’s owner was probably a small man less than 20 years old. 

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