[ReformedBeckite]

I live just outside the city limits south of Murfreesboro, Back many years ago I've met two old folks in the area that when they were very young would go out and clear cannon balls from their relatives fields. One of the old men said they had a pile of old cannon balls about 4 foot high. The cannon balls as well as the rocks would break the plows, so there was an attempt to find them and remove them.

Another old man claimed once in a while they would find an un-exploded one, and he said they had a special place in a pile of rocks for them in a fence row for them.

My gut feeling is the confederates had camps south of town at one point because of a spring fed creek and used the farm land for cannon shooting practice being their was no know fighting on the land as far as I know off.

[WorkingClassFilth]

If I were you, I’d go back and salvage those cannon balls. Then, I’d sell them to yankee collectors . . .

[Grammy]

I was walking on a construction site south west of Franklin and found a cannon ball. It was “grape shot”, a small ball of about 3” across. They would put a number of them in the cannon at one time and shoot it off. However, I have no idea how it got where it was since it wasn’t in the area of the battle of Franklin, nor was it where the army traveled.