Gaines Mill & Cold Harbor The Adams Farm Civil War Relic Fired Impact 54 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 BATTLES OF GAINES' MILL (1862) AND COLD HARBOR (1864) VIRGINIA - FOUND ON THE ADAMS FARM! (The Circled area in the maps) - FROM THE JAMES WEITZEL COLLECTION -  A Fired .54 caliber 3-Ring Rifle Bullet which appears to have had nearly half of it sheared away from the impact.
This relic was recovered from the Gaines' Mill AND Cold Harbor Battlefields (The Adams Farm sits on both). This bullet was a part of the extensive fifty-year collection of James Weitzel.  Weitzel passed away in 2011.
The Adams Farm - Cold Harbor (VA)
The Adams Farm occupies the core of the Cold Harbor battlefield east of Richmond (VA).
'...at dawn on June 3, 1864, three Union corps attacked the fortifications on the southern end of the Confederate line (where the Adams Farm is located), and were easily repulsed with heavy casualties. Attempts to assault on the northern end of the line and to resume the assaults on the southern were likewise unsuccessful.'
One of the most fascinating parts of Richmond National Battlefield is that the 1862 battlefield of Gaines’s Mill sits perpendicular to the 1864 battle of Cold Harbor—on the same ground.
Gaines' Mill was the second battle of the famous Seven Days Battles of 1862. At Gaines Mill, the Union position was eventually broken (after a Confederate attack spearheaded by Hood's Texans) but at the cost of almost 15,000 casualties on both sides.
Cold Harbor was fought from May 31 to June 12, 1864 (with the most significant fighting occurring on June 3). It was one of the final battles of Union General Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign during the American Civil War. It is remembered as one of American history's bloodiest and most lopsided battles where thousands of Union soldiers were killed or wounded in a hopeless frontal assault against the well-fortified positions of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's army. In particular, at dawn on June 3, three Union corps attacked the fortifications on the southern end of the Confederate line (where the Adams Farm is located), and were easily repulsed with heavy casualties. Attempts to assault on the northern end of the line and to resume the assaults on the southern were likewise unsuccessful.
Grant said of Cold Harbor in his memoirs, "I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor [on June 3] was ever made. ... No advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss we sustained."
The armies continued to confront each other until the night of June 12, when Grant again advanced by his left flank, marching to the James River, crossing it, and beginning an almost 10-month period of trench warfare around the cities of Petersburg and Richmond.
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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