✅ SOLVED Help with civil war bullet

[Mark1985]

Sorry about not hanveing a set of calipers but I found this as pictured in a felid between 2 civil war trenches never seen a bullet like this help plz also dug an eagle button there to today

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

It is definitely an unfired yankee .54 Starr Carbine bullet.

 

[Mark1985]

Common bullet cannon ?

 

[HutSiteDigger]

Glad those trenches unearthed yah some Relics there Mark!!! Kewl finds...

 

[Mark1985]

Haha hope the are more to come hut got to spend some more time in them I'm sure there is more there just to find that honey hole

 

[HutSiteDigger]

Yah for sure dog... You have to image that if someone say lost their CS buckle on those trenches after 150 years the trench and soil in the trench since it was dug out by humans and not the proper soil of the earth, would bury that buckle far below what any detector could pick up thats why you gotta dig into those trenches or scan the trenches real slow to hear the faintest signals. I'm pretty sure there is a countless relics in those trenches.

 

[Mark1985]

Haha my eyes are glistening to the thought of that

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Mark1985 wrote:
> Common bullet?

There weren't "a lot" of Starr Carbines in service, so the distinctive bullet for them is uncommon,,, but they are plentiful in locations where units armed with Starr Carbines were located. Most were in the "Western" yankee armies. For example, those bullets are not a rare find in Tennessee. Here's a link to a group of ten .54 Starr bullets found in a yankee cavalry camp in TN, for sale at $75 ($7.50 each). Shiloh Civil War Relics Catalog Gallery (Go a bit less than halfway down the sales-catalog webpage.)

 

[Mark1985]

Make me wonder how many were in Spotsylvania va found a lot of confederate stuff not much union

 

[MOBoy]

TheCannonBallGuy...Finally found you. was at wrong forum. I think you know who I am.