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Item Code: 2026-1550
This is a nice, excavated 6-pounder cannon ball. Iron body exhibits pitting typical of a “dug” item. Fuse is missing, leaving the wide threaded recess that once held the Borman fuse. The under plug with spanner holes remains in place. Drilled on the bottom, making it inert; a clean ball.
Fired from Lantham’s Battery of Branch’s North Carolina Artillery. Captain Alexander Lantham had the only 6-pounder gun at Gettysburg and exchanged fire with Smith’s Battery atop Devil’s Den. This item was recovered near the Triangular Field below Devil’s Den long ago by a local collector who lived nearby. This was part of the Al Flickinger collection sold previously by the Horse Soldier in the 1990s.
A great example of a scarce Gettysburg cannon ball. [jet] [ph:L]
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