A Civil War soldier shot my house! How this Union .58-cal Minie Ball ended up in my shop attic
How long can I talk about one bullet? Challenge accepted! The story of “the Gettysburg bullet” is just too cool to keep to myself. Gives me goosebumps to think that a soldier fired this bullet 160 years ago, shooting to kill, and it hit the house that is now my Paper Cartridges LLC shop. There’s a bunch of bullets dug up and sold at tourist trinket shops, but they don’t have a story or a provenance. This one does, and I wonder what the soldier who fired it would think and say if he knew his bullet hit a building where a Civil War cartridge shop would be operating 160 years later…

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The Rifle-Musket did not really influence the Civil War

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Minié Ball - A VERY advanced design for a 170 year old bullet

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A British Officer's Account of Gettysburg

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The Most Hated Musket of the Civil War: the Austrian 1842 tube lock (Part 2)

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The Williams Bullet in the Civil War - A better bullet?

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Live Firing Civil War Siege Artillery, Part 2, Mortars

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Bombing of the Great War: The Hand Grenade -PART ONE-

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Gettysburg Relics of the Confederate Dead at Pickett's Charge | American Artifact Episode 28

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Making Civil War Musket Cartridges with the Forth Armory Templates

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Dangerous Grindstone Installation in 1971

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The first Rifle Muskets: Chambers and Sabots and Pillars (oh my!)

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Lorenz bullet vs .58 Minié test in ballistic gelatine

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Why did some Civil War-era rifle bullets have plugs?

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Italian reproduction rifle-muskets: the good, the bad, and the ugly truth about the rifling

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The British Officer Who Refused to Kill George Washington

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Did troopers actually carry extra cylinders for their Pistols? #civilwar #militaryhistory

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20 "Outlawed" Trench Weapons Every WWI Doughboy Made by Hand — Banned Forever After 1918

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US Civil War - Union Williams "Cleaner" Bullets

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1871 Spencer Rifle Conversion

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