[Steely Tom]

When I was a kid in Mississippi, I used to look for arrowheads in freshly plowed fields especially right after a rain! They are worth $ nowadays!....................

When I was a kid in Virginia, other kids found Civil War bullets in the plowed earth. There was one kid who had a whole cigar box full of them, he showed me.

They looked like weathered lumps of lead. Some of them had a recognizable shape; when I later learned what a Minie ball was, I knew that's what these were.

[vetvetdoug]

I lived in Corinth, Mississippi, where the largest concentration of troops, both US and Confederate, were camped during the Civil War. Locals literally had buckets of minie balls in varying calibers, cannon balls, and brass items. From Corinth to Shiloh people are still digging up relics. Metal detecting is a significant local hobby and when any property is being turned the metal detectors come out. The impact of a half million troops left a mark.