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Pete, I think you nailed it also. I am looking forward to seeing it first hand!
Pete, I think you nailed it also. I am looking forward to seeing it first hand!
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Tom "Mingo" Machingo
Independent Rifles, Weevil's Mess
Vixi Et Didici
"I think and highly hope that this war will end this year, and Oh then what a happy time we will have. No need of writing then but we can talk and talk again, and my boy can talk to me and I will never tire of listening to him and he will want to go with me everywhere I go, and I will be certain to let him go if there is any possible chance."
Marion Hill Fitzpatrick
Company K, 45th Georgia Infantry
KIA Petersburg, Virginia -
Re: Need help identifying projectile...
I found several similar iron shot of 2.75" approx. diameter at two Federal Battery sites in Jacksonville, Florida. I have always assumed they were for 3" ordnance rifles, perhaps to "get the range" on a target before firing shells. Confederate ordnance of cast iron are often very crude, and canister and grape are frequently badly off-set in the mould, not very spherical.
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