Science digs into Civil War sites

This article was very interesting because it told how advances in forensic science can improve archeological techniques in finding relics. This article provides examples of research on the civil war where scientists are using these new technologies to get information on the history of what happened on a field in Atlanta. It seems to have been an area where war is forgotten and a city has been built over it; however, this is not the case. Forensic scientists known informally as the “civil war CSI” are working hard to figure out what happened on the field. One of these scientists found a bullet and with new forensic technologies has been able to find out everything about this bullet. He could tell what gun it was fired from, information about the gun, whose bullet it was, where it was fired from, and even when it was fired down to the time of day. It is truly amazing what can be researched now compared to 100 years ago because back then underground radar took a truck and much manpower, now it can be put on one person’s back and carried around like a backpack.