Civil War Relics found
Civil War cannonballs, swords and unexploded munition discovered in South Carolina river
The artifacts bring new tangible evidence of Union Gen. William T. Sherman's ruthless Southern campaign toward the end of the Civil War.
Wow was all I could say.
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Fake news. Those are cantaloupes.
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KL: 29999925002267/comments/29999908125851
Fake news. Those are cantaloupes.
You HAVE been standing my the microwave to long! I knew it!
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Lady Rae: 29999925002267/comments/29999954026139
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You HAVE been standing my the microwave to long! I knew it!
It's how I stay warm in the winter!!!! Don't judge me!!!! 😁
In all honesty, it's a cool article. I love these kinds of discoveries. Thanks for the link.
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KL: 29999925002267/comments/29999939973403
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It's how I stay warm in the winter!!!! Don't judge me!!!! 😁
In all honesty, it's a cool article. I love these kinds of discoveries. Thanks for the link.
You're welcome Kevin 🙂
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I think Kevin has on someone else's "hat" and it is way too tight. But then he livens up this crowd a bit.
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Awesome find/article, thanks!!
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Very cool find
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When I was in HS , a work crew found a cannonball while digging the hole for the septic tank on our farm in Central Arkansas. There's bound to be more around, as you can still see faint traces of a CW military road through my woods, and the little cemetery along the property line reputedly had some soldiers' headstones before they were stolen during the depression.
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Neat find for sure
My EX BIL and I, 20 some yrs ago bought metal detectors never hit the big finds lol
But I remember a magazine called treasure and one called search if I remember
all about metal detecting and treasure hunting
their was a article that said for years people would just take rakes and burlap bags and go thur the old battlefields So much stuf and so easy to find
But think of how big and how many peope and equipment were involved .their has To be countless artifacts still out there
Envious of the finds for sure
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Love discoveries of this sort, and search for lost treasures and such.
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Sherman and his soldiers were vicious
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Let me start a war ,, I'm sure from reading history that the south were just Southern Gentlemen during the war and did nothing like Sherman
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I used to live in Milledgeville, Ga. During the war, Milledgeville was the capitol of Georgia. Sherman came through town, but he was nice enough not to burn the town. 70,000 troops stayed in town for 2 days.
One day, I was crossing the Oconee River there. I saw some guys parked at the river bank below. They had an RV parked there. They had a big inner tube, like a life raft, but it had no floor, it just had a screen on the bottom, it was floating in the river. Two guys had scuba gear and were diving there. The river was only about 8 feet deep. They had a vacuum hose that sucked mud and debris off the bottom and dumped it into the life raft thing, then the water washed the mud off of any object.
I went down to see what was going on. The guy on the bank told me that during the war the State Armory was in Milledgeville. The Yankees loaded up two wagons with cannon balls, drove out 80 feet on the bridge, over the river, and dumped them off the bridge into the river. He showed me a cannon ball that they had retrieved, it was shaped like a bullet. It was 3 inch diameter and 5 inches long. He had a box full of these cannon balls!
These guys had read up on the official record and knew that 430 cannon balls had been dumped by Sherman's troops. They had already retrieved 150 cannon balls, and he told me they planned to get every last one of them. He said one of these cannon balls was worth $520.
The guy also showed me a big Bowie knife which they had recovered, he said they had found four or five of them, the big knives had also been in the armory. While the cannon balls were in great shape, nearly pristine, the Bowie knives were pretty rusty. Also he had a beautiful 5 inch long flint spearpoint. I guess the Indians liked to camp there along the river, long ago.
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Oh my:
Put them statues back up and bring out the confederate flag, the flag that Brandon and Kamala does not like.
This proves it actually happened and it's really History.
The History books for schools will have to be edited again and them pages put back inside.
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Some years back a guy was killed while trying to drill out the explosive in a civil war cannonball. it had been in a river since the war. He had drilled out many of them with no trouble but had problems with this one.
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I remember when that man was killed while drilling out the cannon ball, I think it was in S. Carolina, like you said he had done it many times before with no ill effect. Black powder does not deteriorate much just because it has been wet for a century.
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KL: 29999925002267/comments/29999908125851
Fake news. Those are cantaloupes.
The flavor'll blow yer lips right off!🤣
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KL: 29999925002267/comments/29999939973403
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11419717#Comment_11419717
It's how I stay warm in the winter!!!! Don't judge me!!!! 😁
In all honesty, it's a cool article. I love these kinds of discoveries. Thanks for the link.
Now I know you've been standing with your head too close to the microwave.😁
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A lot of old black power bombs and frifles have caused harm and death a hundred years after being loaded .by people thinking it would no longer explode
When younger I will wager I would have been one of the dummys doing similar
If I had found one
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I was told that if you find an old cannon ball and it has a flat spot about the size of a silver dollar,it could still explode.
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