Saturday, March 19, 2022

Don't blow up this bomb

 

A Civil War shell (unexploded) was recently found in Georgia;  the finders were going to blow it up.  I'm not sure if they did or not;  experts on such things said that they didn't have to.

A live Civil War explosive was found in Georgia. Does it need to be destroyed?

"The live round was discovered by archaeologists at Kennesaw Mountain, the scene of a major Civil War battle in 1864. Located near Marietta, Ga., this hallowed ground is where Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army charged into Confederate forces headed by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston during Sherman’s famous March to the Sea. Kennesaw Mountain was a tactical defeat for the North but also a strategic loss for the South, which could not prevent Sherman from reaching Atlanta."
They should still be careful, or something like this could happen (but on a smaller scale):





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