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3-inch Read Bolt Projectile, Rounded Nose

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.
3-inch Read Bolt Projectile, Rounded Nose
© Jack W. Melton Jr.