CSA GHOST said:
That's an interesting bracelet Julien. Do you think there are any artillery shells in the area?
GH,
David
I'm certain there are I have another customer who lives a couple of blocks away on Walthall. She told me that she was told by old timers in the neighvorhood that when thety built the houses a lot of the trees were deformed and some had shot in them. This area, along Collier Rd was where the Battle of Peachtree Creek was fought. Johnston had it planned out to attack en eschelon in a wheeling plan of attack that would have driven the federals left and into the Chattahoochie river. However, Johnston was relieved if command just before the battle and Hood changed the plan of attack into something that did not make sense, and did not work still the battle was very hot, particularly in this area.
If President Davis had left Johnston in command Sherman would NOT have been able to take Atlanta by November and McLellan would have won the election and the war would have ended with a negotiated peace... however, the Lord God rules in the affairs of men and it was not in His plans for the South to win. There are other times in the war where you can see His hand, like in Cassville, when a lost Federal cavalry unit, with artillary bumped into Hood's column and attacked it. If not for that Schofield's AC would have been devastated by a surprise attack from Hood's and Polks corps, Hardee was already moving to attack and delay federal troops moving in from Kingston. It was a perfect trap, well set except for McCooks wandering cavalry. Schofield's AC would have been pretty much killed and captured... but it was not in the plans.
Yes, there is artillary in the area unless it's all been found.
http://ngeorgia.com/history/peachtreecreek.html
http://home.att.net/~captnerdo/peachtre.htm
http://books.google.com/books?id=SdrYv7S60fgC&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq=Cassville+mccook&source=bl&ots=lXXAEOOxMy&sig=LSTfcbzwDICKpTSlb4QBhuv61aE&hl=en&ei=xDQjSr-NComJtgeN8vm9Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1
I think the thing with artillary is that most of it blew itself into pieces and the rest buried itself in the wet Georgia ground.
J
