The South will rise agin'!

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Back in 1959 a couple from Lexington, MA went to visit the Yorktown battle site. While there, a recent heavy rain revealed a cannonball that had been buried in an earthwork.The couple noted that apopular item in nearby Williamsburg was the use of iron balls as gate closers. So, with this in mind, they took the cannonball home and asked the only blacksmith still in operation in an adjoining town to make them a gate closer and were told to return in about a week.

When the guy returned to get his gate closer he was greeted by the smithy who had his head bandaged and an arm in a sling. He had put the cannonball in his forge to loosen some of the rust. Unfortunately, it wasn't a cannonball, but a mortar shell! The heat of the forge ignited the gunpowder and blew a hole through the forge and the wall injuring the smithy, who became, 178 years later, the last casualty of the battle.