Spike 7.62
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This is not a recent find, but I've started putting pictures up recently. I came upon these in Feb of 2011 while visiting my father. The location is within city limits of Alexander City, AL.. if you know Alex City, you'll know the term "city" is taken very loosely. If you are familiar with the town, I was before the boat ramp by Scott Rd by the RR tracks.
I know of no battle in this exact area, but undocumented battles and skirmishes occurred throughout the countryside, or it's possible this could have been a training area. I have no idea what kind of training Confederate soldiers underwent, it's just a hypothesis. This is about 2 - 2.5 hours from Atlanta, and we all know what happened there, so perhaps these bullets were fired as part of that campaign. We will never really know.
Curiously, one is totally flattened. Two others are severely deformed, and two look pretty good. Because they are minie balls and not round balls I tend to believe they were fired by military men instead of hunters. One bullet is of a totally different design than the rest. I'm familiar with modern munitions (current US military) but I'm not too familiar with Civil War stuff.
Didn't find anything but bullets, and I was walking in a straight line parallel to RR tracks, from the 1st bullet to the last may have been a half mile. Part of me wanted to wander in circles, but I wanted to move down the tracks. The next time I go down there I will be returning to the area.
I know of no battle in this exact area, but undocumented battles and skirmishes occurred throughout the countryside, or it's possible this could have been a training area. I have no idea what kind of training Confederate soldiers underwent, it's just a hypothesis. This is about 2 - 2.5 hours from Atlanta, and we all know what happened there, so perhaps these bullets were fired as part of that campaign. We will never really know.
Curiously, one is totally flattened. Two others are severely deformed, and two look pretty good. Because they are minie balls and not round balls I tend to believe they were fired by military men instead of hunters. One bullet is of a totally different design than the rest. I'm familiar with modern munitions (current US military) but I'm not too familiar with Civil War stuff.
Didn't find anything but bullets, and I was walking in a straight line parallel to RR tracks, from the 1st bullet to the last may have been a half mile. Part of me wanted to wander in circles, but I wanted to move down the tracks. The next time I go down there I will be returning to the area.
