✅ SOLVED Bullet from Yankee camp. Strange one. About .69 cal . . .

[parsonwalker]

Never run across one like this before. Shown with standard .58s for scale. can anybody help?

 

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[duggap]

I think you have an Italian Garibaldi. You don't find one of those every day. I have hunted 30 years and I have one.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Unfortunately the civil war bullet book by McKee-&-Mason misidentified that bullet as an Italian Garibaldi or Carcano. Jim and Dean Thomas have done excellent archival research of Confederate Ordnance Department documents, which proved your bullet was manufactured in North Carolina. It is known to have been used mainly by North Carolina CS units, particularly the 6th NC Infantry Regiment. It was made in .54, .58, and .69-caliber.

 

[parsonwalker]

Unfortunately the civil war bullet book by McKee-&-Mason misidentified that bullet as an Italian Garibaldi or Carcano. Jim and dean Thomas have done excellent archival research of Confederate Ordnance Department documents, which proved your bullet was manufactured in North Carolina. It is known to have been used mainly by North Carolina CS uits, particularly the 6th NC Infantry Regiment. It was made in .54, .58, and .69-caliber.

Duggap- thanks man, I had never seen one.

Pete - thanks so much. I find VERY few CS bullets on this farm. It was a short term U.S. camp (1862), but I guess a couple of Confederates took pot shots from time to time. Now that the bullet has been correctly identified, does it have a name? 6th Inf NC you say? Hmmmm. Perhaps one of those guys dropped a BUCKLE nearby . . .

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

The Confederate Ordnance Department's bullet-production records say it was called the "Raleigh Pattern" minie bullet, and it was manufactured at the North Carolina Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind.

 

[parsonwalker]

In the Confederate Ordnance Department's bullet-production records, it was manufactured at the North Carolina Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, and it was called the "Raleigh Pattern" minie bullet.

Thank you so much, Pete!