Cold Harbor Civil War Relic Double Loaded and Fired Confederate Enfield Bullet

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We are working as partners in conjunction with Gettysburg Relics to offer some very nice American Civil War relics for sale. The owner of Gettysburg Relics was the proprietor of Artifact at 777 on Cemetery Hill in Gettysburg for a number of years, and we are now selling exclusively on eBay.
THE BATTLE OF COLD HARBOR, VIRGINIA / A Very Nice example of a Confederate English Imported and fired .58 Caliber (It does actually register as a .58 Caliber with calipers) Enfield Pritchett Bullet which had a second round loaded on top of it in the confusion of battle, evidently, as the double loaded round left a deep mark on the nose, no visible cavity marks, and has nice rifling marks and patina.
After two days of inconclusive fighting along Totopotomoy Creek northeast of Richmond, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee turned their sights on the crossroads of Cold Harbor. Roads emanating through this critical junction led to Richmond as well as supply and reinforcement sources for the Union army. On May 31, 1864, Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan’s cavalry captured Cold Harbor. The next day, Sheridan held the crossroads against a Confederate attack. With reinforcements from both armies arriving on the field, Grant launched an assault on the evening of June 1 with the VI and XVIII Corps. The Union infantry gained ground which emboldened Grant to launch another assault two days later. Before dawn on June 3, elements from five Union army corps attacked the Confederate entrenchments, only to be massacred by Lee's infantry. Both sides remained in place for a week. Unable to destroy Lee, Grant decided to disengage and move on the Confederate rail center of Petersburg in the middle of June.
This
fired 'double load' Confederate (English import) .58 Caliber Enfield Pritchett Bullet
which had a second round loaded on top of it in the confusion of battle, evidently, as the double loaded round left a deep mark on the nose
, no visible cavity marks, and has nice rifling marks and patina,
was part of a collection purchased in Gettysburg. Although the relics were identified as being from Cold Harbor, unfortunately, no specific find locations were given.
A provenance letter will be included.
All of the collections that we are offering for sale are guaranteed to be authentic, and are either older recoveries, found before the 1960s when it was still legal to metal detect battlefields, or were recovered on private property with permission. Some land on Battlefields that are now Federally owned, or owned by the Trust, were acquired after the items were recovered.
We will not sell any items that were recovered illegally, nor will we sell any items that we suspect were recovered illegally.
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