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    prarie grove cannon ball shard

    my parents bought me this at an antique shop in ft smith ar all they know is it's from the battle of prairie grove.so i was wondering if anyone on here could help me identify it. and i'm sorry i'm new to this forum and i have no idea how to post any pics so could someone also help me with that too

    Erik Creekmore
    Last edited by Curt Schmidt; 10-02-2009, 11:29 AM.
    Your most humble and obedient servant,
    Erik W Creekmore,
    2nd Col Vol Inf.

    Sgt Major, Territorial Battalion.
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    Re: prarie grove cannon ball shard

    Hallo!

    Moderator hat on...

    It is a Forum requirement that all posts be signed with your full name. You may want to use the Auto Signature feature in your Control Panel to set up one automatically.

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    Here is one method for playing with photos:

    Here is a stream-lined, and easy way to be able to post pictures:

    1. Open a free on-line site account such as at Photo Bucket.
    2 Use Photo Bucket, etc., to download or "submit" the image from say your "My Pictures" folder so that it is stored on-line at Photo Bucket.
    3. Click to copy the image "IMG" line from the pull-down menu below the Photo Bucket picture.
    4. Paste the IMG line to your post.

    There were a number of types of ordnance used at Prairie Grove, so yes, a picture or two would help. (But fragments can be harder than complete projectiles.)

    Curt
    At Prairie Grove in August
    Curt Schmidt
    In gleichem Schritt und Tritt, Curt Schmidt

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      Re: prarie grove cannon ball shard






      Your most humble and obedient servant,
      Erik W Creekmore,
      2nd Col Vol Inf.

      Sgt Major, Territorial Battalion.

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        Re: prarie grove cannon ball shard

        Might just be the way I'm seeking the pictures, but something about the fragment just looks alittle off. Regardless of that I checked out shells and images in the book "Artillery and Ammunition of the Civil War" and found a projectile or two that resemble the fragment. 1 was called the Pevey shell and the other was McIntyre's Repeating shell. The problem here is, the book that shows images of the two shells places their development roughly 2 years after Prairie Grove.
        [FONT=Palatino Linotype][COLOR=Black]Nicholas A. Keen
        Cannoneer Battery B, 3rd Penna. Artillery
        "When our boys went about the citizens they seemed surly and unaccomadating and showed no disposition to grant us any favors, for which I could not blame them because the soldiers I know to be a great nuisance"- Robert Patrick "Reluctant Rebel"
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        "There is nothing so exhilarating in life as to be shot at without effect."

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        • #5
          Re: prarie grove cannon ball shard

          It is not a Pevey. I used to have a picture of one of those but it seems to have disappeared from my computer. It is hard to tell from the picture but it looks to me like a fragment of a borman fused 12 lb or 6 lb shell but I am not positive. The threaded hole for the fuse can been seen but the hole for the underplug is gone. Shown is a unexploded 6 lb bormen fused shell. The 12 lb would be a little bigger.
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          Jim Mayo
          Portsmouth Rifles, Company G, 9th Va. Inf.

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          http://www.angelfire.com/ma4/j_mayo/index.html

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          • #6
            Re: prarie grove cannon ball shard

            Hallo!

            I agree wit Herr Jim on both counts.

            And yes, it is hard to "extrapolate" the radius in the pictures to determine whether it is a six or twelve shell section.

            (Not sure what the "relic art" is suposed to be... a snail head perhaps. ;) :) )

            Curt
            Curt Schmidt
            In gleichem Schritt und Tritt, Curt Schmidt

            -Hard and sharp as flint...secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
            -Haplogroup R1b M343 (Subclade R1b1a2 M269)
            -Pointless Folksy Wisdom Mess, Oblio Lodge #1
            -Vastly Ignorant
            -Often incorrect, technically, historically, factually.

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            • #7
              Re: prarie grove cannon ball shard

              Just in time for Halloween! Its the RELIC FROM PRAIRIE GROVE SWAMP MONSTER!

              Sorry man, but I had too.

              Thanks for sharing your cannon fragment.
              Christopher E. McBroom, Capt.
              16th Ark. Infantry - 1st Arkansas Battalion, C.S.A.

              Little Rock Castle No. 1
              Order of Knights of the Golden Circle

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              • #8
                Re: prarie grove cannon ball shard

                i measured from the fuse hole to the end of the shard and it measures 3 inches and across is also 3 inches
                Your most humble and obedient servant,
                Erik W Creekmore,
                2nd Col Vol Inf.

                Sgt Major, Territorial Battalion.

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