Civil war bullet

[2 Much Trash]

I was just wondering, why it appears to be for most folks, that finding a nice clean dropped bullet is a better and more exciting find than finding a shot one. Wonder why that is? To me, the shot one really tells it like it is, or was.
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[IowaRelic]

I was just wondering, why it appears to be for most folks, that finding a nice clean dropped bullet is a better and more exciting find than finding a shot one. Wonder why that is? To me, the shot one really tells it like it is, or was.
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For me, it’s finding the drops amongst the fired that makes it hit home. I’ve stopped hunting before and just kinda had a moment of silence for these boys and let them know I have no ill intent, just saving the history.... I have a cousin whose a mystic, she says I should “cleanse” each artifact with sage before recovering...I’m not sure what’s freakier, a bullet haunting me or a seeing a relic hunter burning sage over his finds.

 

[7centsworth]

For me I usually find fired bullets and the camp I detect was used as a training cano so when I find a dropped it’s nice just to see the bullet all intact with no marks.

 

[Confetrit]

To me, bullets from the War of Northern Aggression whether dropped or fired are relics and a piece of personal History. Each bullet was handled and either fired or dropped by a soldier, either a Johnny Reb' or Billy Yank. I still get a thrill, A Blast from the Past' feeling when I find one. Either fired or dropped tells their own story. Years ago myself and some friends had been hunting a piece of a Yankee trenchline. It was about 150 yards long and was in pretty good shape. We had found quite a few fired Minnie' balls in front of the trench and some on the earthworks and just directly behind the trench. One day I aS hunting solo and I came up on the trench and I began studying the ground about 200 yards behind the trench. The ground was flat and was dotted with a stand of hardwoods. It occurred to me that I had never hunted that far back behind the line. I started hunting in the area behind the line and found about 15 dropped bullets. I began thinking and it made sense to me that reserve troops must have been behind the line, or either the troops in the trench had moved back behind the trench. Either way, I felt these dropped bullets were being dropped as anxious Yanks were fumbling bullets while going to their cartridge boxes while engaging in a fire fight with the Johnnies. Sometimes your imagination can almost put you in that time and place. In my opinion, they are both a Great Save with a story of their own.