6th Annual Pilgrimage To Our Unknown Confederate Soldier

At 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, 1979, Rick Forte of Hattiesburg made the discovery of his life.
While relic hunting with a metal detector in the vicinity of Vicksburg, he found parts of a Confederate soldier's cartridge box and canteen. Then, nearby, he found what remained of the soldier's body 117 years after he was killed in the Vicksburg campaign of the Civil War. The soldier age was 16 years old, "ONLY KNOWN TO GOD"