Civil or Revolutionary?

madmac28

Tenderfoot
Aug 11, 2017
6
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Williamsburg Virginia
Detector(s) used
Garrett AT Max
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
I found these rounds in my back yard and I’m not sure if they are from the civil or revolutionary war. Can anyone identify them for me? B23D3E66-B4D5-45FE-B681-9CAB1E0117B2.jpeg
 

I'm not the 'bullet person,' but the top row looks like impacted 3-Ring Minis from the Civil War and the bottom row looks like Round Balls.

Neat find :)
Breezie
 

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All six of your finds are from the civil war. The cylindrical ones are yankee 3-groove Minie bullets, fired ones showing impact damage from hitting the ground or trees. The miss-sharpened lead balls are not musket balls, they are anti-personnel balls from an exploded artillery shell (called "Case-Shot" balls). Neither the Minie bullets nor the Case-Shot balls existed during the Revolutionary War.

A little more detailed ID-info:
One of the lead balls shows a small projecting round disc with a tiny raised straight ridge across its center. That is a casting-mold sprue, which got partly snipped off but not completely removed. There's no need to completely remove it from a Case-Shot ball, but the projecting sprue MUST be removed from a musketball, lest it cause the ball to get jammed partway down the gunbarrel during loading.
 

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Really wish I had stuff like that in my back yard
 

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