HuntinDog said about the bullet he dug:
> It's .56 in dia. and .75 tall.
> I hope more will have ideas as to what this bullet went to.
Fyrffytr1 and Davers are correct, it is one of the Hanoverian types, originally made in Europe. Afterward, Hanoverian bullet-molds were imported into the US, for use with imported European rifles and whatever US-made rifles it could correctly fit into.
You asked for info about "what this bullet went to":
You say it is .56" in diameter. That size is correct for use in (any kind of) .58-caliber blackpowder muzzle-loader rifle... and a .54-caliber breech-loader rifle or carbine. Because the Hanoverian bullets have a solid base (no base-cavity), they are very unlikely to have been made for use in a muzzle-loader (which requires the bullet's base to expand outward to engage the gunbarrel's internal rifling-grooves).
You didn't ask for time-dating info about your bullet. But for anybody here who want to know that info... Hanoverian bullets seem to have first been made "about" the 1860s.
But that 1860s date does NOT automatically mean Hanoverian bullets were used in civil war battles. Insofar as I'm aware, no record has been found that any Hanoverians were made in either US or CSA arsenals. Nor have any been solidly documented as having been dug at a civil war battle trench or troop-encampment. Therefore, no Hanoverian bullet is shown in the Thomas-&-Thomas "Handbook Of Civil War Bullets & Cartridges." When the Thomas brothers (the two most-knowledgeable civil war bullet-ID experts who are still alive) do not believe Hanoverians were used in civil war battles, that's good enough to settle that subject for me.
