Depending on the size of the solid shot, the relics are quite expensive to find a solid shot that still looks like it could be fired. In 2020, a local artillery store in Gettysburg called the Horse Soldier sold a 6-pound solid shot for $900. The solid shot relic was found by a local resident named Al Flickinger near the southern edge of the Peach Orchard. Here is it shown below.
Another 6-pound solid shot was recently sold in October 2025 from an online auction for $8500. This shot was found on the battlefield wedged into a stone chimney while the house was being torn down around 1920. The smoothbore shot is approximately two inches in diameter. Below is the picture of this cannonball.
Within the battle of Gettysburg, there was only 1 six-pound solid shot cannon. It was within Latham’s North Carolina Artillery along the southern flank of the Confederate lines near Snyder and Bushman’s Farm. The location of this cannon is now along southern Confederate Avenue. Latham’s Battery was commanded by Captain Alexander C. Latham.
This cannon weighed 884 pounds and the tube length was only 60″ long. There were only 127 of these cannons ever produced by the Confederacy, and 41 of them were used at Antietam in September 1862. In the battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, only one was used. The 5 degree of elevation would allow the cannon to shoot approximately 1500 yards.
Other locations still have cannons from previous battle that are not six pounders. In South Carolina, at Fort Sumter, which was the place where the Civil War began in April 1861, had 135 cannons placed within the Fort. At the start of the Civil War, the fort was about 85-90% completed, and due to the war, it was never completed. Almost thirty years prior, at the Battle of the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, they had fewer cannons. The Alamo had only 24 cannons, with 21 in battle ready condition in February and March 1836.