Bullet Guys help me out. CW?

[ekeisler]

This bullet is .58 caliber. Found in the vicinity of some Confederate Artillery fragments and a fuse. Absolutely no clue why it’s here as there were no reported skirmishes in this area. Found in the Lowcountry of SC. It has been fired. I can see only 2 rings and the base is not concave at all. Let me know what y’all think. Thanks!

 

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[XLV]

maybe someone was target shooting or testing there rifle ....my dad was shooting colonel sage rifle in the 1960s in new jersey so if u find some .58 cal bullets in park ridge ...there was never no battles fought there either

 

[A2coins]

Cool find

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Ekeisler, the bullet's finder, wrote:
> This bullet is .58 caliber.

Your bullet is a fired civil war yankee .52 Spencer Rifle/Carbine bullet. Although that rifle was .52-caliber, it was a Breechloader, and its bullets actually measure about .56" in diameter.

You also said:
> Found in the vicinity of some Confederate Artillery fragments and a fuse. Absolutely no clue why it’s here as there were no reported skirmishes in this area.

The Spencer repeating rifle/carbine became the primary US Cavalry longarm in late-1863. The fact that you found some Confederate artillery shell fragments and a fuze nearby your fired Spencer bullet suggest that the CS artillerymen took at least a couple of potshots at some yankee cavalry, apparently not enough to bring on an engagement big enough to get reported in the official records.

If you wouldn't mind adding another photo here, I'd like to see those frags and the fuze, so I can tell you what kind of shell they are from, if you don't already know.

 

[ekeisler]

Ekeisler, the bullet's finder, wrote:
> This bullet is .58 caliber.

Your bullet is a fired civil war yankee .52 Spencer Rifle/Carbine bullet. Although that rifle was .52-caliber, it was a Breechloader, and its bullets actually measure about .56" in diameter.

You also said:
> Found in the vicinity of some Confederate Artillery fragments and a fuse. Absolutely no clue why it’s here as there were no reported skirmishes in this area.

The Spencer repeating rifle/carbine became the primary US Cavalry longarm in late-1863. The fact that you found some Confederate artillery shell fragments and a fuze nearby your fired Spencer bullet suggest that the CS artillerymen took at least a couple of potshots at some yankee cavalry, apparently not enough to bring on an engagement big enough to get reported in the official records.

If you wouldn't mind adding another photo here, I'd like to see those frags and the fuze, so I can tell you what kind of shell they are from, if you don't already know.

As always, great information! Your wealth of information never ceases to amaze me. Thank you for the ID. First of all I want to say I’m praying for your condition to improve as I’ve seen you have been dealing with health issues. I hope you are doing better. Secondly, the fuse piece is one you ID’d for me a few years ago as a drilled Confederate Bormann time fuse underplug that was converted into a paper fuse.
The shell fragments I’ve found were from at least 2 polygonal shells as I found 2 fragments with fuse holes. Interestingly enough the artifacts I’ve found at this sight seem to stop at 1800 and jump to the Civil War with these artifacts I’m finding. If you want I can DM you more information about this site so you can record it.

On another note, in January, I found another converted underplug like the one you ID’d for me above.
Thanks to you, I was able to ID it right away. That was found at a different site that I can also tell you about for the sake of recording the information. Thanks for all you do for the members of Tnet! God bless

 

[Yak1366]

Great find, Congrats!!!