By hnn
A Sharpsburg man planting trees at his Powell Road home Thursday unearthed a live Civil War-era shell that authorities later disposed of by setting it off at a neighboring farm.
“When I saw it I knew what it was,” J.D. Taylor Jr. said. “It was the second one I found here.
“It was some kind of experience.”
Taylor said he at first thought he hit a rock with his steel shovel while digging in his yard about a mile from Antietam National Battlefield sometime between 8:30 to 9 a.m.
He pushed the shovel under the object, which was five or six inches deep, and knelt to pry it out….
Source:
Sharpsburg Herald-Mail
Source URL:
http://www.herald-mail.com/news/hm-sharpsburg-man-unearths-live-civil-warera-shell-20130411,0,5585312.story
Date:
4-11-13
From: http://hnn.us/articles/sharpsburg-man-unearths-live-civil-war-era-shell