✅ SOLVED Bullet id needed

[DownNDirty]

Is this a Civil War bullet, and if so what type? The diameter is .57 inches and it is .98 inches long.

Thanks

 

[Icewing]

Looks like an Enfield bullet to me.

 

[DownNDirty]

Looks like an Enfield bullet to me.

Thanks. Were they Confederate bullets?

 

[DownNDirty]

How about these? Probaly post-CW but I'm not sure. Diameter: .35 inches length: .71 inches

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Your civil war .577-caliber Enfield "Minie-bullet" has a conical base-cavity, so it is Confederate-made. British-made Enfield minies had a "plug" (wide, flat-bottomed) base-cavity. The difference is important, because both the Union and the Confederacy imported Enfield rifles and Enfield Minie-bullets from Britain, so when you dig one with a "plug" base-cavity it could have been carried by either a yankee or a Confederate.

 

[DownNDirty]

Your civil war .577-caliber Enfield "Minie-bullet" has a conical base-cavity, so it is Confederate-made. British-made Enfield minies had a "plug" (wide-flat-bottomed) base-cavity. The difference is important, because both the Union and the Confederacy imported Enfield rifles and Enfield Minie-bullets from Britain, so when you dig one with a "plug" base-cavity it could have been carried by either a yankee or a Confederate.

Thanks for the very useful information

Glenn