The November 26th Knox News had an article about finding Civil War artifacts at the site of Fort Sanders.
There is a newspaper account of the first Blue-Gray Reunion members walking the grounds of the former fort and picking up spent bullets 27 years after the Nov. 29, 1863 battle.
The manager of the Fort sanders Hospital, which was built on the grounds after World War I, who kept a collection of unexploded artillery shells on his desk in the 20s and 30s until someone suggested that this might be dangerous. The staff secretly reburied them.
A crew digging a basement on Ailor Avenue in 1946 uncovered a cannonball and a coffee pot. Owner Margaret Stewart kept them as souvenirs, but said the pot could not be used as it was battered and with holes and a missing spout.
Finding Momentos of a By-Gone Era. --Old B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
