http://s290.photobucket.com/user/legendcity/media/SA8_zpstjjmnyv0.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0
This photo shows someone I believe to be a relative. I’m curious to see if anyone knows where this was taken and what it is? This shot was taken pre-1920 if that helps narrow it down. Looks to be a civil war monument? Thanks in advance.
Edit: I don’t know why, but the host site made it much lighter than it is.
Shiloh National Military Park in Shiloh, TN?
Looks like CrafterMan got it in about 10 minutes. It’s 15 layers of balls, not many of those around.
What an awesome resource this place can be! 
Thank You CM
I think this is a possibility
Not so fast, here is another 15 layer stack, at the Assault on Cotton Gin Park in Franklin, TN. The concrete base looks much more similar.
The base he’s sitting on looks taller than that.
It isn’t the last suggestion. The bottom layer of the target photo is buried halfway in the concrete. The stack at Cotton Gin isn’t. Neither is the one in Chattanooga.
The photo looks a lot more like the Lytle Monument at Chickamauga.
Hmmm, I still like the first choice. Seems like the base is very cubic.
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There were around eight of these monuments built to honor fallen Civil War leaders. The Chickamauga appears to me to be a three sided structure. The OP photo seems to support this in my opinion.
He seems to be sitting in full sun, on a side that does not have a plaque. Possible clue.
Also, the balls look like they are stuck in whitish mortar rather than stacked. You can see the mortar between the balls, and it does not look like the balls are too far apart, don’t actually touch to support each other. that should be another clue to narrow it down.
Wouldn’t any cannonball-pyramid have to have the balls ‘stuck’ together somehow? Being round, balls won’t stack like that. Will they?
So long as the bottom layer is constrained, like billiard balls in a rack, they will.
I at first thought that the balls were mortared together, but at closer look (and moving my screen) it is obvious that the balls are sitting on shelves for each layer, with small indentations holding the balls. The lines of the next shelves up are apparent behind the balls.
Plus, is that a Boy Scout uniform?
Yeah, but it would be a little dangerous to have a pile of cannonballs stored this way. If any ball is disturbed the whole thing would come down!
Other than the top one - Ike thinking they’d have to be disturbed a lot.
And it looks like they aren’t doing it that way anymore (as people were taking them) and they were using them for other monuments and projects (sad).
If anyone else is comparing pictures - make sure you note that monument has been redone - so looking at the last two links by campp - they aren’t the same setup - so looks like you’d need to compare pics that aren’t recent.
It looks like an early 20th century US Army uniform complete with campaign hat. But the contrast is so poor you can’t see much detail.
I thought it was a uniform also. WWI probably.
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Hat is certainly WWI, not WWII.
Additional question: Would a Navy man have such an outfit and hat, or was that just the army? One relative was army, one was navy, not sure which relative this guy is (yet).
If the balls are stacked and then fixed (cement is probably cheaper than interior balls) then it will look different than if the balls are stuck on “shelves”
As I said, it sort of looks like the balls are not touching, they are stuck in grooves or shelves, as opposed to some other linked examples where it looks like they stacked and then “glued”.
