✅ SOLVED maybe civil war

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Definately Civil War. 3 ring Minie ball.
 

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was it found near any CW activity?The Caliber and weapon are of CW period
 

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I see "maybe civil war" posted,count on it. GodBless Chris
 

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Nice patina and oxidation. Plenty of CW activity in Bertie co..
 

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found near old Halifax rd. on the plantation, anyone know the cal. or user /
 

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Sorry I shouldn't. Have said anything I didn't know where Bertie co is and will leave it to the experts on here who will be a long again my apologies
 

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Note that this Minie-bullet's nose has a distinctive small flat tip, which is a sign that it was "nose-cast." That term means the bullet-casting mold's filler hole was at the top of the bullet. Therefore, when the cast bullet is removed from the mold, it has a small short projection of lead, called a "casting sprue," on its nose-tip. The sprue was usually snipped off, creating the small flat area on the bullet's nose-tip.

Instead of using the ancient molten-metal casting method for making bullets (which often produced imperfections in the bullets), the US Ordnance Department preferred to have bullets made by using a machine-press to compress a slug of lead (cut from a cylindrical bar of lead) into the desired shape of bullet. Therefore, nearly all nose-cast civil war Minie bullets were made by the Confederates, who -- unlike the massively industrialized north -- possessed only a comparative few bullet-press machines.

In summary... your bullet appears to be a latter-war (1864-65) Confederate-made 3-groove Minie bullet.
 

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thanks
 

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Sorry I shouldn't. Have said anything I didn't know where Bertie co is and will leave it to the experts on here who will be a long again my apologies
I don't know about all that. I think your record speaks for itself. :notworthy:
 

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