Lee button found in time capsule under Confederate monument

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A button that experts believe was from Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s dress coat and a strand of hair from his horse are among the items found inside a time capsule discovered when workers removed the base of a Confederate statue from the grounds of the North Carolina state Capitol. Workers found the time capsule while dismantling a 75-foot Confederate statue that stood on the state Capitol grounds for 125 years. Also among the discoveries reported by the N.C.