AdvertisementCivil War Battlefield 'Limb Pit' Reveals Work Of Combat SurgeonsJune 20, 2018Christopher JoycefacebookEmailA pit of amputated limbs and two nearly complete skeletons that date back to the Civil War were discovered at Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia. Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History have been analyzing the bones to learn more about them and to whom they may have belonged. (Meredith Rizzo/NPR)