Fredericksburg VA Civil War Relic From Hamilton's Crossing Fired .69 Musket Ball

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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 FREDERICKSBURG / AREA OF MEADE'S ATTACK -
HAMILTON'S CROSSING - FROM THE WILLIAM A. REGER COLLECTION - A fired high-impact (or high-velocity) .69 caliber musket ball from a buck and ball cartridge (it has dimples from the buck shot balls)
This relic was recovered from the Civil War Battlefield of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and specifically found at Hamilton's Crossing, in April 1971. Fired on 13 December 1862.
This was recovered in the area of Meade's attack on the Confederate right (Jackson's line) during the Battle of Fredericksburg. This artifact comes out of the collection of William Reger who lived in Berks County, Pennsylvania and relic hunted at a variety of sites from the late 1950s to the mid 1970s. He passed away in Reading, Pennsylvania in 2011. Reger carefully identified his artifacts with typed labels. The Battle of Fredericksburg, fought primarily on December 13th, 1862, is best remembered for the doomed Union frontal assaults on the Confederate position behind a stone wall on Maryes Heights. Earlier in the day, however. Meade's men nearly won the day by breaking through Jackson's line until they were driven back and suffered heavily in the Slaughter Pen.
The original type-writer typed tag in the second photo is not included but was Reger's identification, however a copy of the tag and 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 is now Federally owned, or owned by the Trust, was 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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