Nice condition, Confederate 3 inch Read rifled projectile recovered many years ago near Roper's Knob, Franklin, Tennessee.  The projectile has chipping at the base which was a classic Confederate Artillery problem with their Read shells.  Thes brass sabot with nice rifling and the brass fuse both remain intact.  It has been disarmed and is ready for display.--$425.SOLD

12 pound size, excavated, wood drive-in time fuse, Confederate explosive cannonball.  This cannonball was recovered many years ago on private property here at the Battle of Stones River in rear of Mendenhall's Battery at McFadden's Ford of Stones River.  It has been cleaned, disarmed, and is ready for display.--$295.

Excavated, 12 pound size, Confederate wood drive-in fuse type, explosive cannonball.  This ball was recovered many, many years ago on private property here at Stones River fired by the Confederates at Mendenhall's Battery.  It is cleaned, disarmed, and ready for display.--$295.

Nice condition, excavated, 12 pound solid shot cannonball.  This ball was recovered from the "Burton Hills" Battle of Nashville.  In the distant bygone days, I have recovered as many as half a dozen of these in one day.--$195.SOLD

Beautiful condition, excavated, 4.5 inch drop, Federal Dyer projectile.  The projectile was recovered almost 50 years ago by Tom Dickey himself.  This type shell was fired by the 4.5 inch Federal field rife.  It is drilled, cleaned, coated, and ready for display.  This BAD BOY is HEAVY!!!  It would make us very happy if you could pick it up here at the shop or the upcoming Chattanooga Show.  I'm getting too old to handle shells of this size.--$650.SOLD

Excavated lead driving band (sabot) from a 3-inch Hotchkiss projectile.  This is 2/3 of a complete sabot that was thrown off.  It has a pretty white patina, and nice, deep rifling, and was recovered just in rear of the stone wall near Leland Lane at the Second Day fighting at Nashville.--$25.

Excavated single layer of cannister (7 balls) for a round of 3 inch rifled cannon cannister.  The individual balls are 1 inch to 1 1/8 inch in diameter.  These were recovered over 40 years ago when the area was a pig farm !!!  This was known as Breckenridge's Charge, and 1.800 young Confederates died here in one hour on Jan.2, 1863.--$125.

Excellent condition, excavated, Confederate polygonal cavity cannonball recovered about 40 years ago in rear of Mendenhall's Battery here at the Battle of Stones River.  We have included a section of the polygonal cavity that was recovered from the same area to show the shape of the polygonal pieces of shrapnel from the cannonball.  The polygonal cavity was designed to have pre-determined, designated break lines.  The ball has been cleaned and disarmed, and you can feel the polygonal shaped fragments inside the ball with your little finger.--$350. for the Confederate cannon ball and fragment piece.

Very interesting set of excavated 3 inch size projectile bases.  One of the bases is a brass saboted Read base and was recovered in rear of Mendenhall's Battery here at Stones River and would have been Confederate fired.  The other is an iron saboted Federal Parrott projectile that was recovered in rear of the Confederate line near McFadden Ford here at Stones River and would have bene Federal fired.  Both bases have full sabots with the Confederate being brass and the Federal one being iron.--$95. for the pair.

Excellent condition, excavated, die stamped brass, lead filled intertwined "USA" circular "Artillery Rosette".  This was recovered from a Federal Artillery Camp here at Murfreesboro, TN.  It has a smooth brown patina and full lead in the reverse.--$195.SOLD*

24 pound size, Confederate wood drive-in fuse type cannonball recovered near Charleston, South Carolina.  It was recovered by Dr. Don Orth at a depth of 34 inches.  The cannonball has some areas that are smooth and attractive, but other areas that are not attractive due to an actual "hunk" of shell breaking loose and falling off.  Due to this Confederate cannonball's condition, we are pricing it at less than half price.--$175.SOLD*

Civil War and pre-Civil War cannon "port fire".  This was used to touch off cannons in the early days when a wick was used to touch off the cannon rather than the Civil War Era brass cannon friction primers.  This one remains in excellent, unused condition.--$75.

Original brown paper wrapped, wooden block, containing an assortment of different fuse-burn rate artillery time fuses.  The top is partially open, and a couple of the fuses are visible.  This is an excellent compliment to display with your Civil War Artillery collection.--$75.

Excellent condition, cast brass, Federal Navy water cap fuse dated 1863 and marked with the Federal Anchor.  This was recovered by Dr. Don Orth near Charleston, South Carolina.  It remains in nice enough condition to screw back into a Naval ball with just the threads being cleaned.  You don't dig them much nicer than this.--$95.SOLD

Excavated, "ground burst", 12 pound size Bormann fused cannonball.  This was recovered here at Stones River about 40 years ago.  It appeared to be a ground burst where half the ball blew into the ground, and the other half went up into the air in every direction.  It is precisely reconstructed and glued back together to form a large part of the original ball.  There are eleven pieces of this cannonball reassembled to form about 1/2 to 2/3 of the original cannonball.  It is a thick shell rather than a thinner case shot.  There is currently a huge church where this ball was recovered.  It will make a fantastic desk conversation piece.--$125.SOLD

Complete layer of seven excavated, 12-pounder, 1 1/2 inch size canister balls.  These were recovered on private property many years ago and were fired by Mendenhall's Battery of Federal cannons into the forever known "Breckinridge's charge at Stone River at McFadden's Ford".  At this location, during the January 2, 1863, fighting here at Stones River, 1,800 Confederates were killed by Federal artillery fire in one hour (someone was killed every 2 seconds).  These were found long, long ago before business parking lots and a portion of Stones River National Park existed on the location.--$125.SOLD

Extremely rare, NON-EXCAVATED, 3.4 inch, Dahldren Federal Navy projectile for the Federal rifled boat howitzer.  This is a beautiful non-excavated example with full lead sabot and original cord.  These are called "blind shell shot" and were intended to disable and sink Naval vessels.  A non-excavated example WITH CORD is extremely rare to come by.--$1,450.

Beauriful condition "Arsenal Marked" powder bag punch for a Civil War 12 inch Mortor.  The punch is marked "12 - M (Mortor), and Waterveliet Arsenal - U.S."--$125.

Excavated, 24 pound size, Confederate wood drive-in fuse cannonball.  This cannonball was recovered on private property near Vicksburg, Mississippi, and does have some ground action pitting.  The shell has been disarmed, cleaned, coated, and is ready for display.  There are far fewer 24 pound size cannonballs recovered than 6 pound and 12 pound size.--$375.

Excellent condition, excavated, solid bolt, 20 pound, bottle-nose Parrott projectile.  This projectile was recovered at Vicksburg many, many years ago.  It has been cleaned, coated, has complete brass sabot, and is ready to display.--$450.

Excavated 12 pound solid shot cannonball found in a flower bed on the southern slope of Shy's Hill at the Battle of Nashville.  During the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's I recovered MANY artillery projectiles in this same area of 2nd days fighting at the Battle of Nashville.  I had numerous days of finding 5 - 10 projectiles in a day.  During this time, I would be hunting up one street and Hank Williams, Jr. would be hunting up the next street.  Those were the days!!  There is nothing there now but million dollar homes and iron gates.--$225.SOLD

Excavated 12 lb. size copper time fuzed Confederate cannon ball.  This cannon ball was recovered on private property near Chickamauga, GA. many, many years ago. It has been disarmed, cleaned, and coated, and is ready for display.  It does have some pitting, but is a rare Confederate ball, and still displays quite well.--$350.SOLD

Very rare, non-excavated, Civil War fuse wrench for the water cap Naval fuses in the large Naval balls.  I have only had a few of these over the years.--$350.

Very nice condition, excavated, 3-piece, cast brass Hotchiss percussion fuse system.  It consists of  the cast brass fuse body itself, the internal plunger/ detonator, and the cast brass center plug.  This fuse would make an excellent educational display with a complete percussion Hotchkiss projectile.  I recovered this fuse about 40 years ago near the stone wall - 2nd day fighting, Battle of Nashville.--$89.SOLD

Excellent condition excavated cast brass Hotchkiss Percussion fuze.  I recovered this fuze from the Battle of Nashville - 2nd Day Fighting near the Stone Wall.  It remains in such excellent condition that the slider still moves back and forth on the inside of the fuze.--$95.SOLD*

Excellent condition wooden drive-in time fuze adapter correct for the BIG Naval Balls shot from the massive siege guns.--$95.

Excellent condition, excavated, cast brass, Hotchkiss time fuse.  This was recovered near the stone wall at the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee.  It remains in perfect condition and would easily screw back into a shell.--$55.SOLD*

Quite rare, non-excavated gimlet for a "big bore" gun.  The shaft on this gimlet is 9 inches, so it is for a "big boy" cannon.  It remains in excellent condition.--$150.

Drop-dead beautiful condition, excavated, Confederate 12-pound size cannonball with brass fuse adaptor and iron side-loading plug.  This projectile was recovered near Petersburg, Virginia, and is cleaned, coated, and ready for display.--$495.

Excellent condition, 12 pound size, Bormann fused cannonball.  This is one I recovered about 40 years ago in a crop field on Homer Gannon's farm.  This is now at approximately 3rd base on the softball field of a massive Baptist Church.  It is disarmed, cleaned, coated, and ready for display.--$395.

Excellent condition, 3-inch, late war, Federal Parrott shell with tall step brass base.  I recovered this projectile on Robertson Academy Drive, 2nd days fighting at the Battle of Nashville.  It is disarmed, cleaned, coated, and ready for display.  This type late war Parrott projectile is only recovered at a few very late war locations.--$425.SOLD

Very nice condition early Battlefield Pick-Up 3 inch case shot Schenkl.  The second numbers are still readable on the fuze.  This is a tough shell to find in this condition.--$595.

Excavated, 6-pound size, Confederate Bormann fuse cannonball.  This ball was recovered many years ago here at Stones River.  It has an open fuse hole, and you can see the lead case shot balls inside.  It makes for an excellent conversation piece.--$275.

Excavated, 3-inch, Confederate Read Parrott projectile.  This projectile was recovered near Atlanta, Georgia.  It has a nicely rifled copper sabot 90% intact.  It also has an excellent condition Confederate copper time fuse.  It is disarmed, cleaned, coated, and ready for display.--$495.

Absolutely mint beautiful, unfired DROP, 3-inch Confederate Read projectile.  This was recovered near the Augusta Confederate Arsenal located on the Savannah River in Georgia.--$1,150.

Very pretty condition, excavated, 10-pound, "flat top" Parrott bolt projectile.  This Parrott bolt was recovered about 40 years ago on private property at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  It is the rarer iron sabot variety and is cleaned, coated, and ready to display.--$850.

Beautiful condition, non-excavated, battlefield pick-up, 3 inch, case shot Schenkl projectile.  This projectile was picked up near Fredericksburg, Virginia, and has been for many years in a Civil War Era home there.  The projectile has been disarmed and is cleaned, coated, and ready for display.--$595.SOLD*

Original 12-pound cannonball tin attachment straps used to attach the 12-pound cannonball to the wooden sabot and powder bag.  In the early days, these were sold by Bannerman from Civil War surplus, and they were readily available.  They are actually quite rare to find now.--$95.SOLD

Excavated box of a "ground burst" 3-inch Hotchkiss projectile that was recovered near Shy's Hill at the Battle of Nashville.  The pieces have not even been cleaned up.--$95.

Nice condition, excavated, four pound size cannonball/naval grape ball.  This projectile was recovered near Saltville, West Virginia, and would have been fired by a small four pound size smooth bore mountain cannon.  The very same 4 lb. balls are recovered around Vicksburg, Mississippi, where they were being used in large "naval grape" projectiles.--$75.

Beautiful condition, excavated, cast brass, Hotchkiss percussion fuse.  This fuse was recovered a few feet from the stone wall at the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee.  The plunger still remains intact inside the fuse.--$95.

Drop-dead beautiful condition, excavated, Confederate 12-pound size cannonball with brass fuse adaptor and iron side-loading plug.  This projectile was recovered near Petersburg, Virginia, and is cleaned, coated, and ready for display.--$595.SOLD*

Very pretty condition excavated 6 # Confederate Bormann fuzed cannon ball.  This ball was recovered 40 years ago on the Southern edge of the Battlefield here at Stones River.  There is now a massive ST. THOMAS HOSPITAL (where I just spent the past week !!) precisely on the site.  This is a beauty with a Confederate Bormann fuze that you can still read the second numbers.  There will never again be shells like this recovered here.  It is nicely cleaned, and disarmed.--$425.SOLD*

Very nice condition, excavated, Confederate 3-inch Read Parrott projectile.  This was a local find from about 45 years ago.  You can still see some lathe marks, and most of the Confederate wooden drive-in fuse plug remains intact.  It is disarmed, cleaned, coated, and ready for display.--$850.

Excellent condition, excavated, 3-inch, Confederate Read projectile.  This shell was recovered here at Stones River many years ago.  It has been cleaned, coated, disarmed, and is ready for display.--$850.

Very nice condition excavated "high copper sabot" 3 inch "Selma Arsenal" Western Theater Confederate Read.  This projecrile was recovered near Atlanta, and is a beauty.  It literally has "knee deep" rifling on the tall copper sabot.  It is a super rarity for one of these to come to market.--$1,250.

Very nice condition excavated 3.8 inch Hotchkiss time fused rifled projectile.  This projectile was recovered about 40 years ago from private property near Vicksburg, Mississippi.  It has been disarmed, cleaned, and coated and is ready for display.  This is a projectile not often encountered in complete condition.--$595.

Excavated massive cast brass Federal Artillery stirrup.  This was recovered many years ago from Morgan's CS artillery position at the base of "Vaught's Hill" at the Battle of Milton, TN.  This one stirrup would make at least a dozen "C.S.A." buckles.  I have only ever dug one of these, and it was at the Battle of Nashville.  Beautiful condition.--$175.

Drop Dead Beautiful, and "SUPER RARE" "elongated nose" 3.59 inch Schenkl case shot Projectile.  This is a "Non-Excavated example" that came out of a Civil War era home in Fredericksburg, VA.  To my knowledge, there are less than five "non-excavated" examples of this projectile in existence.  In 50 years here at the store, I have only seen three.  Being non-excavated, the condition is nothing short of super nice just as issued.--$1,850.

Beautiful condition, excavated, 6 pound solid shot cannonball.  I recovered this projectile about 40 years ago in Homer Gannon's back cornfield.  It is cleaned, coated, and comes with a display stand.--$195.SOLD

Excavated Bormann fused, 6-pound size Confederate cannonball.  This cannonball was recovered back in the 1980's on the Homer Gannon farm on the west side of the Old Nashville Highway not far from the current Thompson Lane bridge.  It is disarmed, cleaned, coated, and ready for display.  We are going to include with this ball a wooden display stand.--$275.

Excavated, 12 pound size, thick canister base plate.  This was recovered many years ago on private property here at Stones River and has the impression of the canister balls deeply imbedded from firing.  In the early years, we used to recover these quite often.  They are very rare to find now.--$95.SOLD

REALLY PRETTY excavated drop 3-inch Confederate Read-Broun.  This shell was recovered many years ago near Five Forks, Virginia.  These are only recovered at relatively late war sites.--$650.

Quite rare, recovered from Stones River, 12 pound, "wood drive-in fuse" type cannonball.  This cannonball was recovered about 40 years ago by Dr. Francis Fesmire.  The ball has a large portion of the original wooden sabot still intact as well as an excellent condition, original wood drive-in fuse plug.  The ball has been cleaned, coated, disarmed, and is ready for display.--$375.

12 lb. solid shot cannon ball recovered many years ago here at Stones River from what used to be the Homer Gannon Farm.  There is a MONSTER size Baptist church located there now.  It is cleaned and coated ready for display.  I once dug 6 shells out of "one hole" on this farm - They had dug a DEEP hole and did battlefield clean-up, and tossed the live shells into the hole in an attempt to keep them from hurting anyone !!--$225.SOLD

Excavated fuse portion with side-loader plug of a Confederate 12-pound, copper time fused case shot ball.  This super neat artifact was recovered many years ago on private property at Petersburg, Virginia.--$125.

Excavated group of 22 case shot - cannister - grape shot, all recovered from the battlefield here at Stones River.  Most have not even been washed off and consist of about half a dozen different sizes and varieties.--$195. for the entire group.  That is less than $10 per ball.

Really "BIG", cast brass sabot from a 30 pound size Parrott shell.  This was fired from one of the gun boats at Eastport and recovered on private property there.  It has a beautiful, slick, green patina and has not even been washed.--$35.

Beautiful condition, excavated, lead-filled, circular, "bulls eye" artillery rosette.  This was dug from a Union Artillery camp on private property in General James Wilson's Union camps located near Gravelly Springs, Alabama.--$65.

Original non-excavated Civil War Artillery Flame Concentrator.  These were used to channel the flame and hot gases from being fired toward the paper time fuzes that were filled with fulminate.  These were intended to reduce the number of time fuze shells that the paper time fuze didn't light and were duds.--$48.

Excellent condition, unopened packet of 10-second Civil War Artillery time fuses.--$75.

Excavated top section containing the fuse hole of a 12 pound Confederate polygonal cavity cannonball.  This was recovered just in rear of where Mendenhall's battery here at Stones River was in line of battle (near McFadden's Ford).--$45.

Three Civil War artillery artifacts that were recovered here at the Battle of Stones River about 40 years ago.  The display consists of a partial "high lip" Confederate Borman fuze, a complete unfired cannon friction primer, and a cast brass Confederate Bormann underplug.--$75. for all, and is displayed in a riker glass case

Excavated brass sabot and base from a Confederate Read projectile.  This was recovered on private property here at Stones River.--$45.

Excavated, nose section of a 10 pound Federal Parrott shell recovered many years ago just down the road from the shop on what was known as "Gannon's farm".  The fragment is very unusual in that it still contains the complete pewter time fuse adaptor.  This site is now under a HUGE church.--$79.

Original brown paper wrapped packet of five and ten second Civil War Artillery fuses.  These were used by both Union and Confederate Artillery.--$75.

Civil War and pre-Civil War cannon "port fire".  This was used to touch off cannons in the early days when a wick was used to touch off the cannon rather than the Civil War Era brass cannon friction primers.  This one remains in excellent, unused condition.--$75.

Excellent condition, cast brass, short pattern, Confederate cannonball time fuse.  This was recovered at the Battle of Nashville and is literally nice enough to screw back into a ball.--$55.SOLD

Group of ten assorted sizes of canister balls in an old tin that were picked up around the turn of the century in a cotton field here at Stones River.--$145.

Excellent condition, unopened packet of "Frankford Arsenal" 1864 date, 5-second artillery fuses.  This packet is pink in color and has all five opening ribbons still in place.  These packets have become very difficult to find in nice condition and unopened.--$110.

Very nice condition, excavated, dropped, Confederate used, imported, short pattern, 3-inch Armstrong projectile.  What make these shells different and stand out are the large copper studs that are imbedded in the shell that engage the rifling upon firing.  This projectile was recovered many years ago near Wilmington, North Carolina, and to this day, remains rusty and dirty just as found.  These are only found in a relatively small area and are quite rare to recover.--$695.

Mint condition original unissued "red" Federal Artillery hat cord for the "Hardee Style Hat".--$48.

Artillery "gimlet" out of a local estate and is very crude with a wooden handle.  It shows handling and use and could very well be Confederate.--$95.

A bit rare to come by - "LONG RANGE" 30 second Civil War Artillery Time fuze.  In 30 seconds you could almost send a Civil War Projectile into the next time zone !!--$38.

Excavated Hotchkiss brass percussion fuse plug from the Second Day fightlng - Battle of Nashville, TN.  It appears that upon impact the top of the fuze plug sheared off when the internal fuze slider hit it.  Neat artillery relic !!--$38.

Three excavated, partial, pewter Bormann time fuses.  These were recovered many years ago here at Stones River.  One is a standard Federal Bormann fuse, and two are rare "tall lip" Confederate Bormann fuses.  All three for--$45.

Excavated Confederate copper Bormann fuse under plug.  This CS under plug was recovered on private property at the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee.--$65.

Early battlefield pick-up, "raised rib", 3.67 inch Shenkl fragment.  This was picked up long ago here at Stones River and almost appears non-dug.--$25.

Set of four excavated iron balls ranging in size from canister ball size and on up to a Naval grape.  Quite nice little artillery display.--$75.

Excellent condition, 6 lb. gun size, CS fired canister ball and one 12 lb., Napoleon gun size, Federal canister ball.  Both these balls were recovered on private property here at the Battle of Stones River, have been cleaned, coated, and are ready for display.--$45. for both.