Civil War Repeating Rifle Cartridge?

[the_great_waldo]

I found this on a piece of property in Gettysburg that has yielded Civil War artifacts.
The case is 1.5" long.
Base is 0.626" in diameter.
There is no crimping along the base.
There appears to be an "H" on the bottom of the casing under magnification. I don't want to clean it too hard.
Looks like two small roundish marks where the rimfire casing was struck on the edges.
Have not been able to match up to any CW repeating rifle.
Post war?

 

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Its a Henry rifle cartridge.

 

[the_great_waldo]

Civ War or post-war? Looking at most info it seems not many Henrys were supposedly at Gettysburg.

 

[fyrffytr1]

I can't find a listing for the Henry rifle in the book "Ready...Aim...Fire!" Small Arms ammunition used in the battle of Gettysburg" by Dean S. Thomas. There is the possibility that a Henry could have been bought by a Union soldier and used there. This is from Wikipedia:

The original Henry rifle was a sixteen shot .44 caliber rimfire, lever-action, breech-loading rifle patented by Benjamin Tyler Henry in 1860 after three years of design work.[SUP][1][/SUP] The Henry was an improved version of the earlier Volition Repeating Rifle. The Henry used copper (later brass) rimfire cartridges with a 216 grain (14.0 gram, 0.490 ounce) bullet over 25 grains (1.6 g, 0.056 oz.) of gunpowder. Production was very small (150 to 200 a month) until middle of 1864. Nine hundred were manufactured between summer and October 1862; by 1864, production had peaked at 290 per month, bringing the total to 8,000 manufactured.[SUP][2][/SUP] By the time production ended in 1866, approximately 14,000 units had been manufactured.
For a Civil War soldier, owning a Henry rifle was a point of pride.[SUP][3][/SUP] Letters home would call them "Sixteen" or "Seventeen" Shooters, depending whether a round was loaded in the chamber.[SUP][citation needed][/SUP] The US Government purchased about 3,140 (early versions with inspector marks) in late 1863 to early 1864, mostly for Cavalry units.[SUP][citation needed][/SUP] Just 1,731 of the standard rifles were purchased by the government during the Civil War.[SUP][4][/SUP] The relative fragility of Henrys compared to Spencer repeating rifles hampered their official acceptance. More Henrys were purchased by soldiers than by the government.[SUP][5][/SUP] Many infantry soldiers purchased Henrys with their reenlistment bounties of 1864. Most of these units were associated with Sherman's Western Troops.