Lost Church, Lost Battlefield, Lost Cemetery, Lost War

The story of the loss and rediscovery by the Metro Jacksonville team, of Brick Church, and it's Battlefield, and Cemetery from the long ago Civil War. Discovered not 500 feet from I-95, in Downtown Jacksonville.
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