KCRA: Authorities are investigating suspected looting at Petersburg National Battlefield, just south of Richmond, Virginia. The National Park Service describes Petersburg as the site of the war’s longest siege, lasting more than nine months between 1864 and 1865 and claiming 70,000 lives.
“Earlier this week, one of the park employees was out doing landscape work and noticed some things were out of place,” park spokesman Chris Bryce said.
The digging happened in the eastern part of the park, where there was a large number of excavated pits, officials said. “Many of the holes were just left open,” Bryce said. “They were several inches deep in most cases.”
Marked graves were not disturbed. MORE
Some people huh?
Lets go to a National Historic Site and dig up old buttons and bullets from fallen brave men & sell them. Good plan assholes.
At least these grave robbers waited a hundred+ years. The Egyptian grave robbers looted while the funeral entourage was leaving the foolproof tomb!