Confederate
Read
DIAMETER: 3.23 inches
GUN: 3.3-inch Confederate rifle
LENGTH: 6 15/16 inches
WEIGHT: 8 pounds 14 ounces
CONSTRUCTION: Shell
SABOT: Copper ring
FUZING: Copper fuze plug, paper time fuze
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Confederate
DIAMETER: 3.23 inches |
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| The projectile shown here was recovered from Milledgeville, Georgia. The Official Records, Series I, Volume XLIV, report number 90 of Colonel William Hawley, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry, states that on or around November 22, 1864, Hawley's troops threw 170 boxes of fixed artillery ammunition into the Oconee River Milledgeville, Georgia, (the capital of Georgia during the war), also destroying the weapons of warfare that the Confederates had stored in Milledgeville. Since similar specimens of all patterns on this page have been recovered from the Selma Arsenal site in Alabama, it reasonable to assume that these projectiles were also manufactured there. This rare unfired Read projectile has a high copper sabot with one flame groove cut into it. | ||||