There is a Civil War era cannonball in the wall of the Greeneville Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Greeneville, Tennessee (Presbytery of East Tennessee). Stories about the “Greeneville Cannonball” seem to come around about once a decade as each new generation “discovers” the controversial artifact. The Reverend Walter Chestnut, an accomplished Cumberland Presbyterian historian with ties to the Greeneville church always maintained the cannonball was deliberately placed in the wall of the church in around 1936 in order to create a talking point. At any rate, here is the latest exploration of the topic from the Greeneville Sun:
About Matthew Gore
Matthew H. Gore is a British journalist, historian, popular culturist, archivist, and educator residing in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the immediate past-president of the Society of Tennessee Archivists and is best known for his book The History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988 (2000). He has also published on a variety of topics as diverse as The Origin of Marvelman (a British superhero of the 1950s and 1960s), the relative scarcity of East German philatelics, and the biography of British pulp artist, Denis McLoughlin. He is employed by the Ministry Council of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at the Cumberland Presbyterian Center in Memphis, Tennessee, as editor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Magazine and as publications manager. He has been associated with both Western Kentucky University, which honored him with their James H. Poteet Award, and the University of Kentucky. He also serves as editor for all Boardman Books (Memphis, Tennessee) publications.
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