Antietam gives up a tasty treat UPDATED Dentist opinion

[tymcmurray]

Civilman1 and I hit a section near Antietam that I had never been to before. Civilman got 4 bullets from the area last week. My Whites 6000 was down for the count so I used my Tesoro and dug EVERY hit. I came away with my first honest to goodness civil war bullet, but it wasn't what I expected. The bullet was a chewed bullet wit definite human teeth marks all over it. You can see the opening of the bullet was pinched shut.

After a 5+ hour hunt, we decided to go over to our Williamsport site. There I got another first. My very first artillery fragment. What a rush to see that big ole piece of iron come out of the dirt. First thing I did, once I realized I wasn't seeing things, was look for civilman to share the excitement. Then we opened a couple of cold ones and celebrated a little before hitting it again.

 

[Ed-NH]

Great topic, its fun to see all the thoughts about chewed bullets.

 

[haboo]

LOL.......finally we have a professional opinion. Can't wait to see finial results.

 

[joecoin]

Re: Antietam gives up a tasty treat UPDATED cannonball photo

My great great great grandfather was in the US Civil War, he used to chew on cannonballs. He would catch them in flight and take a big ole' bite outta them.

He was the ornriest cuss you ever could meet.

Of course, he fought to save the Union.

Well my Ancestors fought for RIGHTEOUSNESS and STATES RIGHTS. THEY fought for the Confederacy...Look at the total tally, YES we lost....but the final tally of killed was nearly TWICE the number of Yankees to Southerners=aprox. 400,000 to just 200,000 Southerners. WITH LESS MATERIAL, WITH LESS CANNONS, WITH LESS GUNS, WITH LESS AMMUNITION, WITH LESS FOOD, WITH LESS CLOTHING, WITH NO SHOES, BUT WITH MORE DETERMINATION, WITH MORE HEART, WITH MORE SOUL, WE managed to take out TWICE the number of Yankees, than they took out OF US!

Joshua O. Silva
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Camp #1549
Norfolk County Grays

Yep, and you can't let it go, kin ya?

I didn't know RIGHTEOUSNESS and STATES RIGHTS = slavery. Thanks forthe history lesson. Oh yeah, more Yankees were killed by disease than seditionists bullets.