From the February 13, 2023, Military Times by Jonathan Lehrfeld.
An unexploded artillery shell was found February 8 at the Gettysburg Battlefield. Explosive Ordnance Disposal soldiers of the Army's 55th Ordnance Company safely removed and destroyed the device which was determined to be a 3-inch Burton case shot.
Steven Braun, a contract archaeologist, found the artillery shell while doing a groud sweep over the Little Round Top area which saw considerable action during the three-day battle.
The soldiers traveled from Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and carried the ten pound shell to an alternate location, dug a hole and placed it in there with a C4 explosive to blow it up.
"We're never going to know whether the thing was live or not," said Jason Martz. "And, we're never going to know how the shell got to the point where we found it."
It's Too Bad They Didn't Try to Disarm It. --Old Secesh
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