Badly damaged Confederate time capsule found under Louisville monument
Phillip M. Bailey
A cigar lit by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. A scarf worn by one of his former secretaries. A likeness of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Those were among the relics believed to be unearthed Monday when construction crews found a time capsule that had been buried under the Confederate monument near the University of Louisville for 121 years.
But it's hard to tell. Much of the contents found in the brass box aren't likely to have survived. The box, which sat six inches beneath the memorial, was waterlogged and covered in mud.
Mayor Greg Fischer tweeted that the water had "destroyed" the contents.
“It’s hard to say at this point whether the box was sealed at all,” said Sarah Lindgren, the city's public art administrator, who was there when the brass box was opened at the memorial's site on Third Street. “It certainly isn’t now and pieces are falling apart.”
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Waterlogged and exposed to the elements, it's a wonder anything survived.
