This 20-pound Confederate smooth read shell is in good condition.

The body has a light coating of surface rust throughout with light to moderate pitting. Fuse hole is clear but threads are poor. The base of the shell was chipped when fired and there is a 2.75 inch wide x 2.00 section missing just above the wrought iron sabot.

The sabot has nice rifling marks from being fired. Lathe dimple is present at bottom center.

This shell was recovered by the late Ron Miller along the Taneytown Road. The nearest 20-pound Confederate gun belonged to Woolfolk’s Battery, the Ashland Virginia Artillery of Alexander’s Battalion, Longstreet’s Corps. This battery’s position was just south of the intersection of Millerstown Rd and West Confederate Ave near the Longstreet Headquarters marker.

The late Ron Miller was a lifelong Gettysburg resident, teacher and relic hunter. He and his brother Ed relic hunted the Gettysburg area for years starting in the 1960’s. A biography of Mr. Miller printed for the auction company that handled the sale of his collection says that “collecting Civil War artifacts was his passion.”

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