parsonwalker
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Pretty crazy day. Walking just in front of the Confederate trenches, I look down and there's an artillery fragment lying in plain view on top of the ground.
Fight the briars to the trench and dig my first heel plate. Check the hole and no . . . there's TWO. Lying smack dab on TOP of the trench. Man, what kind of story could they tell?? Were they removed from a body with the intent to be used by another soldier? Did they just sit up there untouched in this desolate bottom for decades until nothing was left but the heel plates? Were they left there later by burial crews? What? I am intrigued by these two simple iron heel plates and their story.
I ended the day with the heel plates, two frags, the outer ring from a bormann fuse and about 20 bullets (Roundballs, Gardners, an enfield, a carbine and 3-ringers) two of them in wood. (Both of those from deep in the trench - assuming they were from trees soldiers would stack on top of the trenches)
My hunting partner found 53 bullets, some good frags, and these knapsack parts all together. We had a good day all around.
Fight the briars to the trench and dig my first heel plate. Check the hole and no . . . there's TWO. Lying smack dab on TOP of the trench. Man, what kind of story could they tell?? Were they removed from a body with the intent to be used by another soldier? Did they just sit up there untouched in this desolate bottom for decades until nothing was left but the heel plates? Were they left there later by burial crews? What? I am intrigued by these two simple iron heel plates and their story.
I ended the day with the heel plates, two frags, the outer ring from a bormann fuse and about 20 bullets (Roundballs, Gardners, an enfield, a carbine and 3-ringers) two of them in wood. (Both of those from deep in the trench - assuming they were from trees soldiers would stack on top of the trenches)
My hunting partner found 53 bullets, some good frags, and these knapsack parts all together. We had a good day all around.
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