Bill Zechman photo - Rotarian Dr Neil Schultz, left, and National Park Service Ranger Jim Lewis examine a sword and scabbard representative of those that saw action at the Battle of Stones River starting Dec. 31, 1862. At right is Warren County Historian Jimmy Haley with a 10-pound cannonball recovered from the battlefield at Murfreesboro. The sword is the same type carried by Schultz’s great-grandfather, Union cavalry officer Alexander Preston Schultz. The senior Schultz was put in charge of the burial crews that interred many of the nearly 3,000 killed in the three-day battle, the costliest proportionately in the entire Civil War. The cannonball was defused so it could be safely displayed. Unexploded ordnance from the Civil War (1861-1865) can still be deadly if handled improperly.
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