help identifying these two items

Not ruling it out without better pictures or seeing it in-hand but the bullet does not look like any tree bullets I've found on CW battlefields. The color looks different to me.

That doesn't mean it isn't period, just means it doesn't look like ones I've found.

One problem I've run into in both GA and TN, there's no shortage of modern black powder hunters hunting on same grounds as CW battlefields in some areas.

Nothing worse than digging a modern black powder bullet on a battlefield!

Found this modern black powder pistol bullet exactly where Forrest's calvary dismounted and fought.

The dropped .54 beauty in the 2nd picture is from the Civil War and was about 5 feet away from where the modern round was dug.

Edited to add: but I do hope yours is the real deal! Hopefully someone else will chime in that has more info



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The 'bolt' looks like it is made for adjusting something due to the square head.
Always hard to tell.

Agree about finding modern bullets that are replicas of old stuff. Also have found 'modern' muzzle loader bullets and even a .58 cal 3-ring hollow base mini without any patina so figured it is a modern drop.

Saturday at the old farm I found half a dozen .22 bullets in wood from an old tree.

I can not tell if the bullet in the piece of wood is old for the photo.

Threads are way too aggressive for an adjustment screw. That was made to hold something to wood. Think lag bolt type attachment.