A Pair of Bormann-Fused Case Shot....

[Bushrod]

...I dug these 12-pounders out of one hole in 1996 on the site of the 17th Ohio Artillery Battalion (12-pdr Napoleons, Capt. Rice, Commanding), who were with General Garrard's Division on the left flank during the Siege of Blakely, Alabama 1st-9th April, 1865...if you look closely, you'll see the remnants of the tin straps which secured them to their wooden sabots (didn't find the sabots-strangely enuff)....the other miscellaneous artifacts were found scattered within 20 feet of the shells.....this site is now covered by a very large house-part of a modern subdivision on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay   As I was carrying these out of the woods, a bulldozer operator who was clearing land for the subdivision stopped and asked what they were...when I told him, his eyes got as big as walnuts and he was ready to skedaddle-until I told them they were safe...later on, he was kind enuff to scrape another spot of land for me to hunt .....BTW, I still haven't had them disarmed...one of the reasons my first wife left me was when I tried to dry out a 100-pounder Parrott shell in the kitchen oven...I ain't taking that chance again...lol...

[Larry]

are you saying their still armed? I'd run too. My luck if I found one it would up. ha ha

[Dustin Mills]

Man, those are nice Bormanns.

We've found parts of fuses and pieces of the shell, but never a whole one. I've only saw them with the tin straps in books also. Very cool find.

[Boaz]

nice find keep them coming DR. ground me again

[Casey]

My understanding that gunpowder only lasts 100 years or so if it is dry...  guessing if it has been in the ground for 150 years it's probably ok

[Dustin Mills]

Don't believe everything you hear. I wouldn't be tossing these in the oven any time soon.