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Mar 20, It took three days of hard work, but the famous"cannonball" trapped in the roots of an American elm tree on the side of a historic street in Quebec City.

Sep 13, The cannonball, like this one, was dislodged from a tree in Kansas City (Getty) Fourteen people were killed and 18 wounded as nearly mounted Confederates overpowered the men of the town.

The cannonball he found dates back to the Civil War. At first glance, it looks like just an average tree stump that’s left behind. However, when you do a little bit more digging on it, you realize that it’s actually tied to a piece of history. People quickly learned that once the tree was cut bushmulching.barted Reading Time: 2 mins. Sep 13, INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - A man stumbled onto a piece of history when he found a Civil War cannonball lodged in a tree he was hired to remove. The tree Author: Kelly Eckerman.

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Sep 17, Remnants of a Civil War battle in Independence, Missouri, were uncovered earlier this week by a local tree service that deemed an old tree needed Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. Sep 12, Yes, a cannonball. But, there’s more. “This is just one of the limbs that was in the tree and you can see the chains are growing into it” he bushmulching.barted Reading Time: 3 mins.

Sep 13, KMBC-TV reports the small cannonball fell out as the worker was chopping the diseased tree on the grounds of the Overfelt-Johnston house.

Note: The Caribbean cannonball fruit is nothing like the Indian fruit described herein.

The house was used as a hospital during the First Battle of Independence, Missouri, which was fought across the street in Sep 18, Turns out, the tree had been holding a story for more than years. Jeffrey Eastham of Jeff's Tree Service had cut down the tree a couple months ago – a necessary step due to Sections.