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Confederate
DIAMETER: 3.59 inches |
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| This is the shell version of the example pictured here, and the same remarks apply. Note the iron plate with its remnants of tin which originally extended across the base of the wooden sabot, thus helping secure it to the tapered cone of the projectile body. The bulk of the Confederate copies of the Schenkl pattern were recovered where a caisson had tumbled off a bridge during Banks' Red River Campaign at BuPont, Louisiana, at the Double Bridges site, located on the Old Texas Star road near Robeline, Louisiana. One mile from this location several projectiles of this pattern were found near the Welch's Cemetery. | ||||