Civil War Finds

[cmthunder]

Last 2 trips to Western Maryland Civil War battle site.
Couple Confederate Gardner’s
1 high base confederate 3 ringer?
2 sharps carbine
1 burnside carbine
Swag 3 ringer
44 cal round ball
2 flat buttons
1 toasted penny
2 pewter type items? One may be a stamp of some sort has writing on end.
My best 2 days finding minie balls, bullets, and the roundball.

 

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[HunterMF]

Awesome finds! I was just doing research on areas around Western MD for private properties around the battle sites. Haha If I catch a permission maybe we can meet up and hit it!

 

[diggerdeeper]

View attachment 1916933 So, I was curious about that piece of type face you found because it was purpose made for a specific printing job. Knowing that the type was reversed for printing, I put your pic in my photo editor and flipped it horizontally which put the type facing the correct direction so you can read it..more or less ! There's a couple of characters that I can't make out and I think it is broken from it's original length..but it appears that it might say- (La?)rgely atended [SIC] and the last few characters are indistinguishable.
This could be type from a Civil War era newspaper or maybe it was used to print military documents of some sort.

 

[Elvis]

Nice haul!!!

 

[cmthunder]

The piece seems to fit the thumb and fore finger like it was used a lot. Has indentations.

 

[EagleEye1]

Very nice finds! What's the very tiny bullet at the bottom??

 

[devldog]

Nice saves on some CW History. You did well on that spot. Continued Success to you. I love to find those Confetrit' Gardner bullets.

 

[billb]

WELL DONE INDEED I hope to one day have the privilege to hunt where CW battles were

 

[cmthunder]

I believe the little one is a .31 cal pistol bullet.
It measures .29

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!!! Congrats!!!!