Do I have artillery pieces to go with confederate fuse?

[JDug]

Does anyone know what items 1, 2, 3 ( left to right ) are?

 

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[BosnMate]

Well, I'm no expert, but it looks to me like there is a mushroomed bullet, and the larger piece looks like a grease cap that is turned down to keep grease under pressure so that it lubes a bearing. Can't really tell from the photos though.

 

[JDug]

Well, I'm no expert, but it looks to me like there is a mushroomed bullet, and the larger piece looks like a grease cap that is turned down to keep grease under pressure so that it lubes a bearing. Can't really tell from the photos though.

The grease cap makes sense. I just realized what the material in the cap is, it's cork. That's typical for a grease cap, right?

 

[doublet2a]

Long item on the right looks like a squeeze box reed..

Rim

 

[JDug]

Long item on the right looks like a squeeze box reed..

Rim

I keep finding those things near battlefields. Someone said they were organ reads , but a squeeze box makes much more sense.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

JDug wrote:
> Do I have artillery pieces to go with Confederate fuse?

As my posting name "TheCannonballGuy" indicates, my specialty area of relic study is pre-20th-century artillery projectiles. Unfortunately, I have to tell you I am 100%-certain that the only artillery-related object in the photo is the fuze.

More information about your Confederate artillery shell fuze, in case you don't aready know:
Because it is most frequently seen in shells designed by John B. Read, some diggers incorrectly call it a Read fuze. But Read did not design that fuze ...and it is also found in several other types of Confederate shells (such as Broun, Brooke, and Mullane shells). All of that being said, the statistical odds favor your fuze having come from a Read shell.

You found the long-range version, which was used in rifled-cannon cylindrical (bullet-shaped) shells. Smoothbore cannons had shorter range, so their shells (cannonballs) used a shorter version of your fuze. The majority of these Confederate timefuze adapter-plugs were made of copper rather than brass, because brass was semi-scarce in the wartime South. This type first shows up at early-1863 battlefields, and was used through the end of the war in 1865.

 

[JDug]

JDug wrote:
> Do I have artillery pieces to go with Confederate fuse?

As my posting name "TheCannonballGuy" indicates, my specialty area of relic study is pre-20th-century artillery projectiles. Unfortunately, I have to tell you I am 100%-certain that the only artillery-related object in the photo is the fuze.

More information about your Confederate artillery shell fuze, in case you don't aready know:
Because it is most frequently seen in shells designed by John B. Read, some diggers incorrectly call it a Read fuze. But Read did not design that fuze ...and it is also found in several other types of Confederate shells (such as Broun, Brooke, and Mullane shells). All of that being said, the statistical odds favor your fuze having come from a Read shell.

You found the long-range version, which was used in rifled-cannon cylindrical (bullet-shaped) shells. Smoothbore cannons had shorter range, so their shells (cannonballs) used a shorter version of your fuze. The majority of these Confederate timefuze adapter-plugs were made of copper rather than brass, because brass was semi-scarce in the wartime South. This type first shows up at early-1863 battlefields, and was used through the end of the war in 1865.

Thanks, that works out sense this battle was fought in 1864.

 

[JDug]

Turns out the 1st item is the top to a powder flask. Ian from acwrelics.com id'd that one.