My Longest Enfield bullet!!!
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Lowryevans
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Nice find!
parsonwalker
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Man, that's a honkin' LOOOOONG one J! Hittin' a battlefield tomorrow. Watch for a post just FULL of good stuff tomorrow . . . maybe. Would be nice . . .
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Looks like a Greene. Often when found, they are found in Tn. I dug a cartridge box spill of these in Franklin. You got a nice drop there. Good job!
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Jpro, here's some info about your "extra-long" minie, in case you don't already know:
Although both sides in the war imported and used the machine-made British Enfield minies, which always have a "plug-cavity" base, only the Confederates made bulletmold-cast ones. So, yours is definitely CS-made.
There was no .54 Enfield rifle. Your "Enfield-pattern" minie was made by the Confederates for use in the imported .54 and .55-caliber Austrian rifles. The CS Army Of Tennessee had many thousands of those rifles. *That is also why a lot of 4-sided-blade Austrian bayonets have been dug in Army Of Tennessee sites, but very few are dug in sites occupied by Lee's army in Virginia.)
Your extra-long Enfield-pattern .54 minie is "mostly" found in 1864-1865 Army Of Tennessee sites. I dug lots of them in Atlanta Campaign sites, and the AoT still had plenty of them in the late-1864 battles around Nashville. I should mention, a good number have been dug at the late-1864/1865 Mobile AL area battles, and the remnants of the AoT still had some when it contested Sherman's march through the Carolinas... particularly at the battle of Bentonville NC.
Although both sides in the war imported and used the machine-made British Enfield minies, which always have a "plug-cavity" base, only the Confederates made bulletmold-cast ones. So, yours is definitely CS-made.
There was no .54 Enfield rifle. Your "Enfield-pattern" minie was made by the Confederates for use in the imported .54 and .55-caliber Austrian rifles. The CS Army Of Tennessee had many thousands of those rifles. *That is also why a lot of 4-sided-blade Austrian bayonets have been dug in Army Of Tennessee sites, but very few are dug in sites occupied by Lee's army in Virginia.)
Your extra-long Enfield-pattern .54 minie is "mostly" found in 1864-1865 Army Of Tennessee sites. I dug lots of them in Atlanta Campaign sites, and the AoT still had plenty of them in the late-1864 battles around Nashville. I should mention, a good number have been dug at the late-1864/1865 Mobile AL area battles, and the remnants of the AoT still had some when it contested Sherman's march through the Carolinas... particularly at the battle of Bentonville NC.
