"Volunteer archaeologists are descending on leafy Lafayette Square in West Baltimore this weekend in an effort to uncover relics from Camp Hoffman, a Union army encampment that stood there during the Civil War.
Just hours into the project Friday, while dodging rain showers and swarms of June bugs, the diggers had already turned up fragments of mid-19th-century tableware and decorative wrought iron, nails, birdshot and even a piece of an old pocket watch.
'We popped down on stuff right away, which I didn't expect. And it's definitely 19th-century stuff,' said Charlie Hall, terrestrial archaeologist with the Maryland Historical Trust."
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