Erin Shelley Levine

Bioarchaeologists and historians with the New York State Museum believe the soldiers were likely buried in unmarked cemeteries in 1776 when a Continental Army hospital was situated on Lake George's southern end.

Many likely died of smallpox and typhus after a failed invasion of Canada in late 1775.

Linda Homan is one of a handful of volunteers who helped sift through and piece together the discovered bones.

The four pine boxes draped in the Continental Union flag were the last to enter the memorial site overlooking the Adirondack Lake.

NPR News, Erin Shelley Levine, Lake George.