CAMPBELLTON, Texas – A Civil War-era explosive was safely removed from an Atascosa County property Monday after the homeowner discovered the decades-old relic was still live.<\/p>\n
Deputies were called just before 8 a.m. to the 21000 block of FM 791 after the homeowner reported he had what he believed was a Civil War-era artillery round. <\/p>\n
According to the Atascosa County Sheriff’s Office, the man told deputies he had owned the item for years. He thought it was a harmless replica until a friend with military experience suspected it was still an active explosive.<\/p>\n
Out of an abundance of caution, the sheriff’s office requested assistance from an explosive disposal team from Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.<\/p>\n
The explosives team determined the device was a live Parrott artillery shell, a type of ammunition used during the Civil War. The shell was safely transported to an explosives range at Camp Bullis, where it was detonated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAMPBELLTON, Texas – A Civil War-era explosive was safely removed from an Atascosa County property Monday after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-390146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}