Confederate "mid-sleeved" Read Long Model shell with pre-rifled brass sabot

[CSA2K]

Rare summer hunt for me pays off in iron and copper

 

[Double Envelopment]

This is really a pretty unusual and unique find, its the type of thing I strive for on each hunt. This should get a Banner!!!!!

 

[CSA2K]

Thanks buddy

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Congratulations on finding an extremely rare version of Confederate rifled-cannon shell. The after-cleaning photos you posted confirm that it is indeed the super-rare "mid-sleeved" version of a 2.9"/3"-caliber Read Long-Model shell, with pre-rifled brass sabot.

My book about civil war artillery projectiles has a Rarity Rating scale, from 1 to 10, from most-common to most-rare. Your find rates a 9. I've estimated that only about 20 of your shell have ever been found. So, I'm voting Banner for your find.

Yours is the first Mid-Sleeved Read Long-Model shell I've ever seen/heard-of being found in Virginia... which adds to its "specialness." The super-rare variety of shell you dug seems to have been manufactured at a "Deep South" Confederate arsenal, probably in Georgia or Alabama, because all of the (very few) others were found in four Deep South states (GA, AL, MP, and SC). I watched one get dug near the (June 1864) Kennesaw Mountain GA battlefield. I know of a few others being found at Atlanta Campaign sites, and Mississippi, and one from the battle of Blakely AL. Plus one from Sherman's March through SC (early-1865).

 

[huntsman53]

I wasn't sure that this find was a Banner find until the verdict was in but now that TheCannonballGuy has confirmed it, I am voting banner! Awesome find!


Frank

 

[TxFlag]

Thanks you for posting pics of this CSA2K. Very neat piece of history.

 

[Isaac]

That is an AMAZING piece of history... and is extremely rare as well... definitely voting BANNER!

 

[CSA2K]

Thanks Tnmountains and the admin staff for allowing me to correct the thread title

 

[BuckleBoy]

Nominated for Banner.

BIG Congrats on a find of a lifetime!


-Buck

 

[Double Envelopment]

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Scroll down to sleeved Read - sabot appears to be iron but pretty close and cool as hell.

 

[CSA2K]

Nominated for Banner.

BIG Congrats on a find of a lifetime!


-Buck

Thanks Buck but looks like artillery is the ACW's red-haired-stepchild lol

 

[CSA2K]

Civil War Artillery - Army of Tennessee Relics | Confederate Belt Buckles, Artillery, Buttons, all Authentic Civil War Relics

Scroll down to sleeved Read - sabot appears to be iron but pretty close and cool as hell.

Thanks for the info. Never heard of Sampson and Pae before very interesting. If this shell had their stamp at one point its no longer visable