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Lance head from the Sixth Pennslyvania Cavalry... Rush's Lancers!
Yesterdays digs... I had a great day with my third "Find of a Lifetime" this summer. My first was a Civil War Spencer carbine. My second... you'll have to wait just a little longer, but it WILL BLOW YOU AWAY! Here is my third. This is a Civil War lance head from the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry unit known as "Rush's Lancers". It was a very famous unit from the upper crust of Philadelphia society. A lance is basically a spear that cavalrymen would try to use to stab the enemy. Of course, by the time of the Civil War, long range muskets, repeating rifles and rifled cannon made a lancers term of service very hazardous. Not long into the war the Lancers threw away their lances and were issued modern carbines. And I found one of those lances with part of the wood shaft still attached!!! I'm very excited and have always dreamed of finding one of these since first reading about them in the book "The Illustrated History Of American Civil War Relics" way back in '78. Wahooo....
Here is an up to date shot of my Spencer carbine I found a few weeks back. I think I'll keep it in this condition.
Thanks for checking out my post!
Here is a painting of Rush's Lancers. Notice the streamers attached to the lance head and the attachment devices on the one I found. Very cool...
Yesterdays digs... I had a great day with my third "Find of a Lifetime" this summer. My first was a Civil War Spencer carbine. My second... you'll have to wait just a little longer, but it WILL BLOW YOU AWAY! Here is my third. This is a Civil War lance head from the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry unit known as "Rush's Lancers". It was a very famous unit from the upper crust of Philadelphia society. A lance is basically a spear that cavalrymen would try to use to stab the enemy. Of course, by the time of the Civil War, long range muskets, repeating rifles and rifled cannon made a lancers term of service very hazardous. Not long into the war the Lancers threw away their lances and were issued modern carbines. And I found one of those lances with part of the wood shaft still attached!!! I'm very excited and have always dreamed of finding one of these since first reading about them in the book "The Illustrated History Of American Civil War Relics" way back in '78. Wahooo....
Here is an up to date shot of my Spencer carbine I found a few weeks back. I think I'll keep it in this condition.
Thanks for checking out my post!
Here is a painting of Rush's Lancers. Notice the streamers attached to the lance head and the attachment devices on the one I found. Very cool...
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Great finds aquachigger 
