Not Trash!!!

[ashdigger]

Hey guys recently while looking for a few relics I came accross this little metal gasmo, I almost tossed it but being a good detectorist I placed it in my trash bag. After I got home a looked a little closer and washed it off I noticed it was'nt trash but a flattened Burnside Case one of the very first cartridges of the war, most likely a Confederate. So in the future look a little closer at that trash it might suprise you, I know I'll be looking closer. Take Care..

 

[{Sentinel}]

Yep that is exactly what it is...I have a couple of those unfired. Nice find!!

 

[TreasureTales]

Good advice - thanks. And nice find!

 

[Montana Jim]

Nice find... Great eye... and better advise!

 

[SouthCarolinaTeacher]

Ash,

Great Find and even Greater not throwing it away!

I love those types of cartridges because there just isn't any others like it. The Confederate Army was the primary army to use this type of ammo.

Keep It Coming!!!

Ian

 

[l.cutler]

Very nice! But the Burnside was one of the most used carbines in the Union army, I believe about second or third most used. The Confederates captured metallic cartridge carbines and rifles like Burnsides and Spencers and mostly had to rely on captured ammo to feed them as well.

 

[SouthCarolinaTeacher]

Very nice! But the Burnside was one of the most used carbines in the Union army, I believe about second or third most used. The Confederates captured metallic cartridge carbines and rifles like Burnsides and Spencers and mostly had to rely on captured ammo to feed them as well.

Very True Cutler,

But once the Union Army got word that the Rebels were compatible with their rifles and muskets, they started working more with Pin-Fire and Rim-Fire cartridges which were not usable with the Reb's guns.

Ian

 

[l.cutler]

While the Southern arsenals were certainly capable of producing cartridges for the Burnside, Spencer, Smith etc. the tooling, machinery and setting up for the comparitively few captured weapons would be cost and time prohibitive, so the captured cartridge weapons were not that widely used.

 

[ModernMiner]

Love them relics.
Congrats.
-MM-

 

[Burdie]

Nice find!! HH
Burdie

 

[ashdigger]

Hey guys thanks for the info. Thats the first one of these I found and I'm sure there are more out there and several people have found them but I dont know anyone recently finding one in our area (Southern Missouri) Were they mostly used in the major campaines back east or all over? Take care

 

[l.cutler]

Pretty much anywhere the cavalry went. The Army of the Potomac usually got the newer technology before the western armies, so they may have taken a little longer to get there.

 

[livetoplay804]

Either way, used a lot of not much at all....still a cool find and a very good point about not throwing out trash.

Great job Dad!

 

[Ronin9868]

Good find!

 

[WeaponsUSMC]

In my hunting area in Eastern North Carolina, The Burnside is our second or third most common bullet we find, flat base that is, the dish base burnside is alittle harder to find, but still have a pocket full... What makes these bullets fun to find there in New Bern NC. is, it was Gen. Burnsides greatest victory (and last if im not mistaking). It took him over a year of preperations to plan this takeover of the city of New Bern to give the Union army a supply route behind the enemy's lines.
(unfortunatly, I just moved back to Ohio, but I will visit my metal detecting buds all throughout the summer to get my CW digs in)

Bill

PS the Burnside is on the right of the picture, 3rd from smallest, its a flatbased

 

[trk5capt]

Nice Keeper, Congrats. trk5capt...

 

[tsgman]

Great find Steve, Good advise also. Best advise to any relic hunter never throw anything away. I know when I have a relic that I cannot identify I hang onto it and usually sooner or later I find out what it is. Like those candlestick holders I dug. Tim

 

[civilman1]

Amen Tsgman....I've probably lost a few relic's myself (CW) just because I didn't know what it was.A little bit more informed these day's thank's to this place.....Good eye Ash!!!