possible musket ball?

stlcardinalsfan · Sep 17, 2013

really heavy for its size

i think it might be a musket ball.....i know a couple of civil war skirmish's happened in my area and near where my house is...not sure if that could be tied into this or not

ekeisler · Sep 17, 2013

I believe it is! Good find there's more stuff there. Go back and hunt it hard.

tennessee digger · Sep 17, 2013

Hate to tell you but it's not a musket ball. It looks like it's made of iron or steel which would rule a musket ball out. I think it is a ball bearing, but it is possible that it could be a canister ball.

Hunters Haven-NC · Sep 17, 2013

It looks like iron canister shot from an exploding type projectile. I've found several at a battle site.

flatbutton · Sep 17, 2013

Looks like canister to me

stlcardinalsfan · Sep 17, 2013

woah ok, i found it in my back yard.

cannister shot is actually cooler than musket lol

heres just the history on my areas only skirmish

maybe this was from one of those experimental cannons?

Thompson commanded a detachment of 85 horsemen and four to six experimental cannons that had been manufactured in Memphis. Colonel James Morgan Illinois troops were reinforced by Brigadier General Schuyler Hamilton's 2nd Division, hence Thompson quickly fled. Entering the area from Bird's Point, Brigadier General Eleazor Arthur Paine, commander of the 4th Division of Army of the Mississippi, repaired the railroad and telegraph lines and used troops from Illinois to form a garrison for Sikeston, Bertrand, and Charleston. War records indicate that on March 31, 1862, there were six Union officers and 143 Union soldiers present in Sikeston. On September 22, 1864, during Price's Raid, a Confederate force of 1,500 men near Sikeston under the command of Colonel William Lafayette Jeffers attacked Captain Lewis Sells' company of Union soldiers who were moving from Cape Girardeau to reinforce two companies of soldiers in Bloomfield.[10]