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Authentic Civil War Bullets & Projectiles

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
Authentic Civil War Bullets & Projectiles
Approximately 40 Civil War lead bullets and projectiles. History has recorded that over 1000 different types of lead bullets were used for rifles and pistols during America's Civil War. The 'minie' ball, a lead hollow based bullet was the standard infantry bullet of the war and changed the face of warfare forever. The 'minies' would fit over 400 different types of guns and when shot from a rifle were accurate to about 1000 feet. During America's Civil War over half a million soldiers on both sides were wounded in combat which was a staggering one third of the men in both armies. Two hundred thousand others were killed fighting in the four year war. Ninety percent of those soldiers killed on the battlefields owed their fate to the rifles and 'minie' bullets.