Well my neighbor invited me to go dig a little. Of course I said yes. The land is part of the Chancellorsville campaign. We went to a spot in some thick woods for a couple of hours and didn’t find much worth keeping so my neighbor and I made our way back to the truck. While waiting for one of our other friends to get back I started looking around near where we parked. I dug these 2 Gardner bullets maybe 30 yards from the truck. I was pretty happy with them cause I haven’t found that many confederate bullets. When I got home and cleaned them, I saw that they looked a little different so I got out my calipers and measured them. You can see that one is a bit smaller. It is a 54 caliber gardner. The only 54 cal Gardner I’ve had in my hand. That’s pretty special, at least to me. The other is the usual 58 cal you see. We also went to another spot, a field of about 200 acres where our other friend dug a half a dozen Sharps and 1pistol bullet. I’m happy with my 2.
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