Civil war veterans’ remains buried after languishing in storage for decades

More than two dozen veterans' urns sat in a Seattle funeral home until given services with military honors

For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen US civil war veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle.

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers - but nothing linking them to the civil war. Still, that was enough for an organization dedicated to locating, identifying and interring the remains of unclaimed veterans to conclude over several years that they were all Union soldiers deserving of a burial service with military honors.