Wow, nice hits, your are in bullet relic heaven.! Just think, for a slow single shot, each one of those bullets were loaded by hand, and also for brother killing brother is a gruesome thought. No brass cartridges in those days.
I would be tempted to get an exact replica of a Civil War rifle and load one of those bullets with black powder and fire one into target on a hay bale to retrieve it again. To re-live and see what the recoil and accuracy was like.
Yes I also have a 70 with a 10.5 HF and it has lots of depth, works beautiful in low mineralization, but I had some trouble in very high mineralization. I am looking at getting a T2 Ltd for the very iron high mineralization areas.
Are you thinking about getting the newly released CoilTek 15" MF DD WOT for relics to go even deeper with more coverage.?
This is sad below, really mind boggling, and very hard to imagine, a lot of very good men died here. Just think if this Civil War would not have happened and these men lived, how much different the US would have been today.? But the only good thing that came out of that war except abolishing slavery is if the war never happened and these men lived changing the course of history, we(all of us) now may have never been born in the first place and we(all of us) would not be alive today, in irony.!:
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www . civilwarhome . com/casualties . htm
At least 618,000 Americans died in the Civil War, and some experts say the toll reached 700,000. The number that is most often quoted is 620,000. At any rate, these casualties exceed the nation's loss in all its other wars, from the Revolution through Vietnam.
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The American Civil War was the deadliest war in American History. As many as 620,000 individuals lost their lives during the Civil War. More Americans died in the war than were killed in all the major US wars since then.
Confederate deaths were about 260,000 of which 93,000 were killed in combat, while Union deaths were 360,000 of which 110,000 deaths were in combat. Disease was the major cause of death in the civil war. Out of 620,000 deaths, over 400,000 were from diseases.
In total deaths the American Civil War was the deadliest war in American history (although in combat related deaths, World War II remains the deadliest conflict with 292,000 combat deaths).
Union Casualties : 110,000 killed in action
360,000 total dead
275,200 wounded
Confederate Casualties :93,000 killed in action
260,000 total dead
137,000 wounded
In the South, a huge number of civilian casualties were incurred, as would be expected given the destruction of Southern cities and farms late in the war.[/size]
