Lol thanks buddy. They're pulled. I found a bunch years ago at this spot. These are from 20+ years ago. Yes it's a Confederate camp. My guess it they camped over night & knew that they were going to battle. It's 1st corps ANV.
Makes sense, don’t see any fired
Check this Gardner out. He loaded it backwards & looks like he had a helleva time getting it out. This is from this camp. It's close to town buddy. They knew they were heading for the shit. The sound ball looked tough to get out also. I bet they bitched. Lol
Check this Gardner out. He loaded it backwards & looks like he had a helleva time getting it out. This is from this camp. It's close to town buddy. They knew they were heading for the shit. The round ball looked tough to get out also. I bet they bitched.
Agreed, assuming loaded backwards.
The only conical ball that's pulled is a three ringer. None of the gardners are.
Odd that only round balls were pulled, unless they got a shipment of Gardners in that day. Also odd that number of round balls….i thought/assumed by that point in the war round balls weren’t as common.
I hunt the Gettysburg campaign. They used what ever was still available. Both sides still had many .69" smooth bore muskets in use. Every division in every corpse in both armies had smooth bore muskets in use in July of 1863. If you ever get a chance Read Aim Fire! Small arms ammunition in the battle of Gettysburg. It has in it who carried what. The Reb army carried everything it had with them ftom Virginia. If they did get new stuff it was off of captured Yankees.
