Being the center of silver-mining activity for the region naturally engendered a few disputes mainly focused on the question "Who owns all this silver?".  When they ran out of burial space for the casualties, they began to 'recycle' them.  There are 40,000 individuals who make up the decor of the Bone Chapel. 

War--after all, what is it that the people get?
Why--widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.
-Samuel B. Pettengill