3-inch Read Bolt Projectile, Rounded Nose

Confederate

Read

DIAMETER: 2.94 inches
GUN: 3-inch wrought iron (ordnance) rifle
LENGTH: 6 1/4 inches
WEIGHT: 8 pounds 1 ounces
CONSTRUCTION: Solid shot
SABOT: Copper ring
FUZING: None

This pattern is the most common recovered 3-inch Read bolt projectile. Most specimens have been recovered from Snyder's Bluff, Mississippi. Note the copper sabot is thick and unevenly cast typically of the occasional rushed Confederate manufacture. A few projectiles of this pattern have been recovered from the 1864 Resaca, Georgia, battlefield north of Atlanta.