Thanks Red Badger.
Posted on 02/09/2023 11:42:19 AM PST by Red Badger
It’s illegal to dig for relics there.
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My brother found a bayonet at that battle sight back in the late 1940s. Don’t know who in the family might still have it.
Idiot, it is illegal to use metal detectors or keep artifacts from National Battlefields.
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“Illegal” only matters when one gets caught!
I remember reading Antietam had 25,000 casualties in a single day
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Supposedly the bloodiest single day of battle in American history, but don’t know if that’s true.
Battle of Antietam is considered the most bloody battle of Civil War.
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Commonly thought to be so, but I believe it to be confused with the more accurate estimate that at Antietam occurred the bloodiest SINGLE DAY of battle in American history.
Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland has many square miles of land with unknown amounts of unexploded ordnance. It’s an Army base where they develop and test all sorts of stuff. I live nearby and the house shakes and rattles often when they blow stuff up.
If an explosive starts a grass fire, no matter the size, if a water cannon can’t reach it, the do air drops. No one but no one walks there.
Similar thing happened at an old Negro Cemetery that went back to before the Civil War, in Mississippi way back when I was a kid.
The old wooden coffins had long ago rotted away and they had not been buried very deep, 3 feet maybe, plus it was on a hillside that got soaked with rain and eventually gave way................
Same here at Eglin Air Force Base. They find old bombs here all the time from WWII and before.
A friend of mine was a bulldozer driver on a construction site in Destin years ago and hit an old WWII bomb while clearing some land for a project.................
Thanks Red Badger.
LOL
How many so far have let you know that 50K KIA for Gettysburg wasn't correct? ;^)
A couple....................
lol
That stuff will be there for another hundred years, killing and injuring French farmers every year. And all the ordnance the Eighth Air Force and the RAF dumped along the Belgian/ German border, the odd 500 pound bomb that got stuck in the bomb bay they manged to eventually jettison.
September 17, 1862. It shares a date with another American, well Allied disaster that would happen some eighty odd years later on the same date.
September 17, 1944. The disaster at Arnhem, Operation Market Garden during WW2.
Thanks I’ll check it out. That shell isn’t a cannon ball from a “Napoleon’’ field piece.
It looks to be a rifled shell, maybe from a Parrot gun.
THANK YOU rexthecat. I read “50,00”” deaths and thought if this article was so very wrong in the lead sentence, was it worth wasting the time to read. Had it not had the photo, I would have moved on immediately. I am disappointed it took so many comments before some Freeper like you said “whoa.”
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