Found Poison Mini Ball With a Cork at Base of Big Round Top, Gettysburg in 1904.

[jeff of pa]

The St. Louis Republic. (St. Louis, Mo.), 21 Aug. 1904.



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[RustyRelics]

That is bizarre. I've never heard of anything like that. Neat that a guy from Ashland found it! I wonder where it is now...

 

[jeff of pa]

at Least 3 Different types.

Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.), 19 Sept. 1861.



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The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]), 28 Feb. 1862.






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St. Cloud Democrat. (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.), 29 Aug. 1861.


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[devldog]

This was the first that I had ever heard of these being used. These must have been pretty rarely used or at least one would hope so. To find one of these bullets would truly be a rarety.

 

[jeff of pa]

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the 3 Piece Mentioned



I Can't find a Pic of One with a Cork,
But from the Description ( form of a sugarloaf).
Not officially a Mini Ball

 

[smokeythecat]

It is well known that during the American Revolution, that both the British allies and the Patriots swiped musket balls with excrement, human or animal in order to ensure an infection in the person hit. The Indians on both sides also did this commonly. Actually, that was a practice going back long before Greek and Roman times.

 

[ronr]

Volcanic self contained had cork in base but was not poisonous.

 

[devldog]

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I Can't find a Pic of One with a Cork,
But from the Description ( form of a sugarloaf).
Not officially a Mini Ball

Is this a 3 piece Schaler bullet? (If I spelled it right.)

 

[jeff of pa]

Is this a 3 piece Schaler bullet? (If I spelled it right.)

I think That's What it Said Where I Copied it from

 

[smokeythecat]

Yes, that is one of the Shaler varieties. They did not work as advertised. That last bit of article, stating the scalping process is benign compared to this atrocity? Really? Not. Did you know Patriots during the Revolution also took scalps? And sold them to dealers who then shipped them to Europe, I assume to make wigs from! The Revolution was much nastier than the Civil War. No wars are civil.

 

[jeff of pa]

Yes During The French & Indian War 1750's Both the Sides were Selling Scalps.

As far as I Know only The Indians Were Slaughtering & Eating Babies.

It's a Bit why I sometimes have to Remind Myself The Indians of Today,
Are not the Indians of That Period

But Why when People complain the Indians were Mistreated, I Laugh & Don't Care !

 

[moosescout]

Yes, that is one of the Shaler varieties. They did not work as advertised. That last bit of article, stating the scalping process is benign compared to this atrocity? Really? Not. Did you know Patriots during the Revolution also took scalps? And sold them to dealers who then shipped them to Europe, I assume to make wigs from! The Revolution was much nastier than the Civil War. No wars are civil.

The British offered a bounty on scalps also. This may of been where that comes from. Some like to say this is where indans learned to scalp but they were doing it long long before.

 

[devldog]

Yes, that is one of the Shaler varieties. They did not work as advertised. That last bit of article, stating the scalping process is benign compared to this atrocity? Really? Not. Did you know Patriots during the Revolution also took scalps? And sold them to dealers who then shipped them to Europe, I assume to make wigs from! The Revolution was much nastier than the Civil War. No wars are civil.

You are right about that Smokey. That was No Civil War, but one of Northern Agression.

 

[smallfoot]

No matter how you try, you can't turn war into a Sunday social...

 

[arrow86]

That’s crazy ! Surely shooting with standard bullets would have been enough for 99% of soldiers must have been a very angry and violent few that would use those bullets.

 

[jeff of pa]

That’s crazy ! Surely shooting with standard bullets would have been enough for 99% of soldiers must have been a very angry and violent few that would use those bullets.

Yea From what I Know of the Civil war, Most were Fighting because they Had to,
& Really didn't want to Kill other Americans.
in fact allot became friends, when they re-met after the war.

These were True Killers that invented & Used these bullets

 

[moosescout]

Isn’t war about who can kill the most people? Whether using explosives, bullets, poison bullets, exploding bullets,swords and bayonets. How about gangrene, a horrible death caused by uncleanliness. Either way your dead. Wasn’t it Sherman who said “war is hell”. Remember the British thought the colonists were cowards because the shot from behind trees and rocks. Heck I think they were pretty smart. [emoji41]

 

[Davers]

Is this a 3 piece Schaler bullet? (If I spelled it right.)

You spelled it wrong but I have a book to help me , Shaler.
( I have not seen many of these until a DIV 3 ? years ago , one guy at my club had dug quite a few , whole & pieces ) Yes I was a bit ' Green'.

This article reads (to me ) like it's describing Shaler bullets & Williams Cleaner types.

So IMO , not poison types.

Let me add , I wonder if a Box Wood Cavity Enfield could have been the type found at Gettysburg , with a good bit of oxidation under the plug .

Some Civil War era Minnies / Bullets had Iron plugs or pieces in their cavity as well , AS I have been told many times.

 

[Davers]

Yes, that is one of the Shaler varieties. They did not work as advertised. That last bit of article, stating the scalping process is benign compared to this atrocity? Really? Not. Did you know Patriots during the Revolution also took scalps? And sold them to dealers who then shipped them to Europe, I assume to make wigs from! The Revolution was much nastier than the Civil War. No wars are civil.

Yes Mam.

Like the Man , W.T. Sherman said " War Is Hell ".

 

[devldog]

Yes Mam.

Like the Man , W.T. Sherman said " War Is Hell ".

And he and his army played Hell in Georgina on his March to the Sea and on into South Carolina.