Confederate

Unknown

 

DIAMETER: About 10 inches
GUN: 10-inch Smoothbore
LENGTH: About 11 1/4 inches
WEIGHT: About 210 pounds
CONSTRUCTION: Bolt
SABOT: None
FUZING: None

A very large caliber and very heavy armor crushing projectile for a smoothbore gun, intended to be used at very short range before the projectile could start to tumble.