Gettysburg Bormann Shell Rose Farm Gettysburg / SOLD

Gettysburg Bormann Shell Rose Farm Gettysburg - Inventory Number: GET 418 / SOLD

Bormann Artillery Shell – Fired from a 12 Pound Napoleon, this shell originally featured a zinc time fuse which was likely thrown in flight exposing the iron under plug.  The shell is now inert having been drilled and flushed.  The area surrounding the fuse hole bears an old, worn, painted inscription “Gettysburg 1863 / Rose Farm / Inert”.

The Rose farm in the battle - The Rose Farm was at the center of some of the fiercest fighting of the war on the second day of the battle. The farm included Stony Hill and the Rose Woods. It also included a twenty-acre field where over 20,000 men engaged in brutal and often hand-to-hand combat. Over six thousand men were killed or wounded there. Ever since it has been known simply as The Wheatfield.

The thick stone walls of the farmhouse and barn provided shelter to the Confederates of Semmes’ and Kershaw’s Brigades, and the farm buildings were used as a Confederate field hospital. It is estimated that between 500 and 1,000 Confederate soldiers were buried on the property. Alexander Gardner took some of the most famous photographs after the battle here.

Inventory Number: GET 418 / SOLD