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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3595946, member: 27832&quot;]When I was a very small child, my brother had a heavy, rusty metal thing that sat on his dresser. He always told me it was a Civil War shell from the field behind our house. (This was in Williamsport, MD, maybe 10 miles from Antietam Battlefield, so it&#039;s totally believable that artifacts would get tilled up as they prepared the field for feed corn.)</p><p><br /></p><p>A bit of Googling makes me think it might have been a <a href="http://www.civilwarartillery.com/projectiles/rifled/IIIA120.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.civilwarartillery.com/projectiles/rifled/IIIA120.htm" rel="nofollow">Schenkl shell</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.civilwarartillery.com/projectiles/rifled/images/iiia120.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>It never did blow up, fortunately. The explosions had to wait until I started adding to my chemistry set.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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