Items found near civil war bullet, please help!

[Superblitz]

These items are probably from many different time periods, but I found them all within a narrow area of the spot I found the bullet last night. I don't know anything about the bullet either, so any help on that end is appreciated as well.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

The ruler in the photo helps at least somewhat, but we need precise measurements to give more-specific identification. The bullet is a civil war era yankee .54 or .58-caliber 3-groove Minie-ball. The twist-marks on its top mean that it has been "pulled" out of the muzzleloading rifle's barrel by using a bulletworm attached to the end of the rifle's ramrod. Here's a photo showing what that looked like. (But note, one of the corkscrew-shaped arms of the bulletworm in the photo is broken off.)

Muzzleloading guns sometimes needed to be unloaded, such as when the gunpowder got wet, or you returned to camp from guard duty with a loaded gun. With a muzzleloader gun, you can't simply open up the back end of the barrel to remove the bullet. So, you would attach a bulletworm (also called a bullet-puller) onto the gun's ramrod, insert the ramrod down the gun's barrel, and twist the ramrod until the bulletworm digs into the soft lead bullet's nose, gripping it. Then pull it out of the barrel.

The lead ball on the right in the photo may be a fired pistol-ball. Need precise measurement with a Digital Caliper to be sure.

We also need well-focused closeup photos of the ball and each of the other objects you want us to identify.

 

[Superblitz]

Heard and understood! I'm having trouble with the app, but I'll get to the new photos in my computer shortly.

 

[Superblitz]

 

[Superblitz]

Hmm it appears it did work somewhat. Here's the last one I have

 

[BosnMate]

The first picture is a modern arrow head, called a field point.

 

[BosnMate]

I should have said the first picture below Cannonballguys photo. The next couple of pictures look like handles to fire place pokers, something like that. Do they have a threaded hole on the flat end?

 

[Superblitz]

Thank you! Yes, they look like they screw on to something.

 

[Lafitte Deux]

The items with the threaded ends could also be lamp shade finials.