In 2009, archaeological investigations of the future Sorority Village site unearthed a Confederate battle site with cannon emplacements and trenches facing the Fort Sanders area. The Civil War site is the first archaeologically substantiated Confederate battery position used in the Battle of Fort Sanders on November 29, 1863. Modified plans for the placement of the sorority houses allowed preservation of approximately 60 feet of the south end of the trench, which is marked with a plaque.