✅ SOLVED odd Burnside bullet disc

[ResurrectedVirginia]

Found in a federal cavalry camp in Virginia. It is a Burnside bullet. The cartridge was definitely intact for a long time. Unfortunately the ground was hard on this one. The disc piece is very odd. Was definitely attached to the bullet when it was in the ground and it came out of the hole with the bullet. It is NOT metal. It appears to be felt or cloth. Did these cartridges have any kind of wading in them?
Or was this like a Williams cleaner bullet? Or could it even be a swab that broke off inside the casing when it was still in the factory?

Any ideas are helpful. Thanks for looking.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Typing error correction.

It is indeed a felt disc which was placed in the cartridge as wadding along with the bullet and powder during the cartridge-manufacturing process. I do not know whether every Burnside cartridge had the wadding. Sometimes when I've dug a Burnside cartridge which had corroded open, the wadding is there, and sometimes it isn't there.

 

[ResurrectedVirginia]

No kidding. Thanks a lot for the info. Glad to know that someone else has found these and that this is solved. Do you have any pictures?