re: #157 Dopamine Fish

Something us Americans don’t really comprehend. It’s been over 150 years since the last war in North America, and unexploded ordnance is very, very rare. I can’t remember the last time I read about a Civil War artillery shell being discovered.

Here you go.

Civil War artillery shell discovered in downtown Charleston (FOX News Channel, February 7, 2020)

An artillery shell from the Civil War was discovered in downtown Charleston this week.

Charleston Police Department tweeted Wednesday that the shell was found by a construction crew at Gillian Street, which is in the heart in the historic city. Roads were closed in the area while a U.S. Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal team removed the shell.

A spokesman for the Charleston Police Department confirmed to Fox News that the shell was subsequently destroyed by the Air Force EOD team.

(more, with video of the shell)

42 artillery shells found south of Atlanta (The Civil War Picket Blog, October 14, 2009, with a photograph of the shells)

A contractor installing a new water line at a home near Lovejoy, Ga., made a surprising find last Friday.

Workers discovered 42 Civil War-era artillery shells, believed to have been left behind or misplaced by Union soldiers in September 1864.

Mark Pollard, Henry County’s Civil War historian, said the homeowner, whom he declined to identify, contacted him after he had pulled all but two of the Hotchkiss projectiles out from the 2-foot-deep cache.

“It’s exciting to know there are finds like that out there,” says Pollard, who completed the recovery and transport of the rifled rounds.

The Clayton County homeowner agreed to donate them to the Nash Farm museum, where Pollard leads battlefield tours. Nash Farm is a Henry County historic park.

(more)