Box 0371
Container
Contains 91 Results:
Lead Bullets
File — Box: 0371, Box: 1, Item: 094
Scope and Contents
Lead bullets: one measures 26 mm Minie ball with three grooves at base used in muzzle-loading rifled barrels to provide spin-stabilization for rifled muskets - these are Tamisier ball grooves for aerodynamic stability, possibly .69 caliber, the grooved bullet of this type was used in the Crimean and Civil Wars; round lead ball measures 16 mm was used in smooth bore muskets. Mr. Stuckey said in his letter that the bullets come from near Hagerstown, Maryland.
Dates:
1861 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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Civil War Letters and Memorabilia Collected by John Henry Stuckey
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Series 4: Civil War Publications, Ephemera and Memorabilia
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Series 4F: Realia and related correspondence
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1957 September 11 letter from Helen M. Zeikel (Luray, VA.) re: the bullets and
buttons