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.
