I could use some help
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gseuser
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looks kinda like grapeshot
Skippy SH13
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I'll second that. Looks like grapeshot.
Grapeshot was packaged up like this and shot out of cannons with devastating effect on massed troops.
It's possible this is a remnant of the US Army's offensive against the Comanche Indians during the 1870s. You'll have to research any specifics of the location, but a cursory search shows that the Army from the New Mexico territory operated during this time frame against the Comanches. You might search out Colonel Gordon Granger as a possible point of research. Lots of bloodshed during this time, and plenty of skirmishes/warfare that might have occurred in your area, most of it related to protecting and expanding the cattle trade as the buffalo were wiped out for hides (industry found a use for their hides in the form of leather belts for machinery, causing the price for hides to skyrocket, decimating the herds, as hunters came out west to harvest). You might very well have a piece of history, there...
Interesting, for sure!
Cheers,
Grapeshot was packaged up like this and shot out of cannons with devastating effect on massed troops.
It's possible this is a remnant of the US Army's offensive against the Comanche Indians during the 1870s. You'll have to research any specifics of the location, but a cursory search shows that the Army from the New Mexico territory operated during this time frame against the Comanches. You might search out Colonel Gordon Granger as a possible point of research. Lots of bloodshed during this time, and plenty of skirmishes/warfare that might have occurred in your area, most of it related to protecting and expanding the cattle trade as the buffalo were wiped out for hides (industry found a use for their hides in the form of leather belts for machinery, causing the price for hides to skyrocket, decimating the herds, as hunters came out west to harvest). You might very well have a piece of history, there...
Interesting, for sure!
Cheers,
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