Tom Wing, UAFS Assistant Professor and Director of Van Buren's Drennen Scott House, presented the SSCHS with the gift of a Civil War canister ball found on Devil's Backbone Ridge where the Confederates were situated. The 12 or 14 pound canister ball would have been fired by the Federals at the Confederates. Twenty-seven canister balls were fired at one time from a cannon, producing the effect of a shotgun, and yielding devastating results. The canister ball will be on display at the Old Jail Museum through the end of October.
Wing is pictured showing the ammunition to SSCHS officers (left to right): Glenda Wallace, vice president, Ruth McConnell, president, and Joicie Gilbreath, recording secretary.
Wing entertained and informed the SSCHS membership with a slideshow and discussion of a book he editted, "A Rough Introduction to This Sunny Land: The Civil War Diary of Private Henry A. Strong, Company K. Twelfth Kansas Infantry."
