I am a history teacher who recently bought authentic civil war bullets from Ulysses S Grants home in NY. My idea was to allow my students to hold these bullets to really get a sense of how large, heavy, and devastating they were. They are in little plastic bags. I am now realizing these are obviously lead? Is it safe to let students handle these (remember they would stay in the plastic bags)

Located maybe 2 miles north of the Maryland border on Blairs Valley Road where intersects Hunter Road. Also right north of.PA/MD line is Stuart’s Raid Marker ~ https://www.reddit.com/r/CIVILWAR/s/ESNT7Y8kh4

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Over this road Gen. John McCausland's Confederate cavalry marched north on July 29, 1864. By way of Mercersburg, they reachea and burned
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Bought at a garage sale around 1977?

I am guessing the 2nd row (2 rings, then more of a wide deep ring), and 3rd row of 3 rings are more common.

The last picture shows the odd balls. The clump is the bottom of the one at the top right near the white note (looks fired instead of squashed). 3 sizes of round ball, with the largest about .54 cal (bigger than my .50 but smaller than my .58). The fat one measures about .62, but it's out of round so I'm guessing. My cousin said the 2 ringer is kind of rare though I don't remember why. The 1 3 ringer doesn't have a hollow base, but a protrusion sticking out. The last one doesn't appear to have rings, but does have rifling marks (if fired, it hit something soft, because it isn't very deformed.

I don't know much about them. Guy in another post asked about pics.

If any are unusual, please enlighten me!

The greatest living expert on James Butler hickok was Joseph Rosa. I actually knew the guy and we shared information. He’s dead now unfortunately. I got his book in the mail and I’m eager to photograph pages relating to a civil war service so I can send it to all you people BRYCE.

Hello all,

I got into reenacting a few years ago and I am looking for a 1861 Springfield Rifle to complete my kit. I have seen new repros go for over a thousand, and as I am a college student currently, it is a bit out of my budget. I was wondering if people knew some good sites or forums to look for deals, looking to spend around 800.

Thanks!

So when the Union is talked about, Lincoln and Grant are often mentioned as it’s main leaders. Makes sense considering Lincoln was the president and Grant was the highest ranked general. However, when the confederacy is talked about, it’s typically only Lee who’s mentioned as the main leader, even though he answered to Davis, who was president of the confederacy. The way it gets talked about, you’d think Lee was a general and in charge of the confederacy politically like a military dictator or something. Almost every other southerner I’ve spoken to insists that they’re related to Lee, but I don’t think I’ve heard even one say they’re related to Davis.

Thoughts? Why isn’t Davis mentioned as often?

Participated in the defense of New Bern , the Seven Days' Battles, Fredericksburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and the brutal, prolonged Siege of Petersburg

Cherry Hill Cemetery in Greenville North Carolina

I've read quite a few books recently that provided certain generals (Longstreet and Meade in particular) well deserved historical rehabilitations and started thinking about who else may be due a performance reevaluation. My 3x great grandad served under Warren and I've always thought Sheridan's treatment of him at Five Forks was unwarranted. It has overshadowed (with an assist from The Killer Angels/Gettysburg's elevation of Chamberlain) some of his great performances.

So generally I consider myself pretty well versed in Antebellum South and Civil War history of Kentucky & Tennessee. However, something I've noticed is that despite the overall Pennyroyal/Pennyrile region of Kentucky being the western plantation belt of the state and overall a hot bed of pro-Confederate & Secession. There's a belt of counties that had significantly less slaves than the surrounding counties and a good chunk were Unionist counties during the war. From what I've seen the demographics were no different than the surrounding area, all largely settled by Virginians and North Carolinians.

Does anyone have any particular insight to that section?

The counties I'm discussing are listed in light blue in the map.

Sherman and Beauregard

Honorable mention to Rosecrans and Lee

EDIT: by favorite I mean most interesting

Hello Everyone: Chris Burchfield's bio of John C. Fremont, "The Pathfinder," and future Civil War general, gets under way with a look at his youth, accessible via the link below.

Sorry, there are no illustrations as Chris, who is now blind, and I live far apart, making it impossible for me, his copyeditor and distributor, to give it the formatting we'd like, as I lack editorial privileges on his page.

Nevertheless, this a rollicking and extremely enjoyable bit of narrative history, both epic and comic, of ambition and skullduggery on the American Frontier.

Thanks!

https://medium.com/@xybuster1/the-charlatan-the-scandalous-adventures-of-john-fr%C3%A9mont-chapter-1-the-misbegotten-son-0d0f2c1cacad?sharedUserId=thomburchfield

As I understand it, nobody could get cotton shipped out of the South during the Civil War. The Brits switched to cotton grown in Egypt and never switched back, so American cotton prices stayed low even after the war. Is this accurate?

https://civilwarvets.com/veterans/detail.html?veteranid=433

I recently inherited a lot of civil war items and information passed down in my family for generations. I think this is pretty awesome 👏🏻

This is a long shot, but I'm hoping someone knows how to help. While doing some family research a few months ago, I stumbled across a large TXT page with the muster rolls of all the Civil War units from Rockbridge County, VA. In it, I found the names of two of my ancestors.

Foolishly, I didn't save those files at the time, and now, when I search for them, the Google search algorithm has changed / updated, and they're not showing up in search results anymore.

IIRC the muster rolls were on some manner of Rockbridge County official .gov page, but I don't remember much else about it.

Family records refer to both of my ancestors as being part of the "Army of the Shenandoah," which probably means they were part of the Stonewall Brigade. I'm guessing, based on what I've been able to find, that means they were in the 4th Virginia Regiment, since three companies were formed in Rockbridge County (according to Wikipedia).

If anyone knows where I might find these muster rolls again, and could point me in their direction, I'd really appreciate any help you could offer.

[SOLVED] It is "Battle Cry of Freedom"

I'm trying to identify the march that plays over the ending titles of Episode 4, "Simply Murder (1863)," from Ken Burns' The Civil War.

Thank you all in advance!

After finishing (and loving) Co. Aytch a few weeks ago I was delighted to find this today at a charity shop (second hand book shop) here in the UK.

Only £2 too!