Confederate Ridge, Union Side

tymcmurray · Jul 24, 2009

The Union troops were advancing on to Confederate Ridge.
It is a good mile with nothing but farm fields and a few rock
outcroppings. I couldn't imagine what was going through their
minds! Many times you have to think of the history of the area
you are hunting. Sometimes the place demads it.
Fast forward to today. I pulled a few of their dropped and fired
rounds from the ground to display proudly in my collection.
The pulled bullet looks like a "Panic Pull". I can certainly
understand that!!!

Nana40 · Jul 24, 2009

I couldn't imagine, Ty. $:-\$ But your collection, I'm sure, will look super with those finds added.

Nana

Bavaria Mike · Jul 24, 2009

The pulled balls have a lot of character, nice finds! HH, Mike

Tank69 · Jul 24, 2009

nice finds

Silver Searcher · Jul 24, 2009

The thought of being hit by one of those rounds sends shivers down the spine

the sad remnants of war :'(

Great post :thumbsup:

ModernMiner · Jul 24, 2009

Bavaria Mike said:
The pulled balls have a lot of character, nice finds! HH, Mike

I agree with Mike. I hope he was talking about the bullets. :tongue3:

Some great CW lead there Ty. :icon_thumleft:

Congrats,
MM

creeper71 · Jul 24, 2009

Nice finds, now all you have to do is figure out where the Confeds were camping/fighting.... Btw was this a hunt without Civilman with ya?

spartacus53 · Jul 24, 2009

I would love a piece of that history you are holding there! I am sure you will come upon some buttons very soon too. It is amazing what those soldiers had to face in battle. A little bit of trivia for you is that it took nearly a mans weight in lead to drop one soldier because firing was so inaccurate. I am surprised that there is still land in MD that you can detect. I would love to be there one weekend for my piece of history!

lonewolfe · Jul 24, 2009

Nice digs!

HH

Aquila · Jul 24, 2009

Very nice bullets! :icon_thumleft:

VOL1266-X · Jul 24, 2009

Nice finds Ty-Pulled bullets are almost as rare as carved ones!! HH.

tymcmurray · Jul 25, 2009

Thanks for the comments.
I DO love the history!

allen · Jul 25, 2009

good job on those awesome cw relics !!!

johnreb1980 · Jul 26, 2009

Nice saves Ty. :thumbsup:

bookfisher · Jul 26, 2009

Very, very cool finds! A mile of farm fields? I love to have that much open space to hunt! There's got to be more exciting stuff to find.

terryo · Jul 26, 2009

Ok, ummm,...serious question...no seriously...how does one "pull a ball"? No really, I want to know, not being silly !

Dman · Jul 27, 2009

Nice bullets

Hutch911 · Jul 27, 2009

Great finds buddy glad to see the ridge give up some Relics for you. That is alot of land to cover there has to be more!!!

collector01 · Jul 27, 2009

Nice bullets, I all ways got to stand there and think what it was like back then when I dig a target.

Curious The George · Jul 27, 2009

terryo said:
Ok, ummm,...serious question...no seriously...how does one "pull a ball"? No really, I want to know, not being silly !

You carry a thing called a "worm" in your pouch. It fits, screws, on to the end of your ramrod. It looks like a cork screw with two prongs instead of one. You put it down the barrel of your musket or rifle and you twist the ramrod while pushing it into the bullet. The cork screw part makes those marks on the bullet that you see in the photo. When the worm has grabbed the bullet then you simply pull your ramrod back out with the bullet screwed onto the worm.

This is done for several different situations. One you want to take the bullet and powder out to clean your weapon with out firing it. Or you have forgot to put the powder down before sending the bullet down the bore. Or there is a misfire and after trying two or three caps to make the weapon fire you unscrew the nipple and try cleaning it, that doesn't work and you then pull the bullet so you can figure out why your weapon won't shoot.