civil war dug bullets lot. (5) gaines mill 7 day battle

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civil war dug bullets lot. (5) gaines mill 7 day battle.
These were found in the late 50 early 60s. Great for any collection I do combine shipping on multiple orders!
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The Battle of Gaines’s Mill, fought on June 27, 1862, and one of the Seven Days’ Battles, was a Confederate victory and remembered by many of its participants as the most intense fight of the American Civil War (1861–1865). As Confederate general Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson arrived with his troops from the Shenandoah Valley, Robert E. Lee determined to take the offensive against Union general George B. McClellan and his Army of the Potomac, which threatened the Confederate capital at Richmond. On June 26, Lee was turned back at Mechanicsville, but McClellan retreated anyway. The following day at Gaines’s Mill—named for the nearby grist mill of Dr. William Gaines—Lee attacked again, finding Union troops positioned behind a stream that was entirely absent from Confederate maps. While Richmond’s elite looked on, Confederate generals A. P. Hill and Richard S. Ewell charged up a steep hill, suffering horrific casualties, before Jackson’s men—late-arriving and slow to engage—finally joined the fight. At dusk, the battle turned in the Confederates’ favor, and an evening cavalry charge led by Union general Philip St. George Cooke was a costly failure. In nine ghastly hours of fighting, Union and Confederate casualties totaled about 15,000 men.