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 * ... that over two thousand skulls, legs, ribs and other body parts of unidentified soldiers were sorted and interred in various compartments under the Civil War Unknowns Monument (pictured) at Arlington National Cemetery?
 * ... that Littleberry Mosby Jr, captain and brigadier general during the Revolution and War of 1812, disinherited his son, Littleberry Mosby III, for leaving Virginia?
 * ... that the Fire Station No. 1 in Roanoke, Virginia was modeled after Philadelphia's Independence Hall?
 * ... that Gillfield Baptist Church, Virginia, the second oldest black congregation in Petersburg, United States, resisted a consolidation with the white congregation at Market Street Church in 1829?
 * ... that Oakley, a plantation home in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, was built in 1828 by Samuel Alsop, Jr. as a gift for his daughter?

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