Virginia - Spotsylvania buy Battlefield - Confederate Currency - Civil War Bullets

The original 1864 hand signed “Ten Dollars” Confederate note has a pink overprint and a picture of an artillery caisson in the center. In the lower right corner of the note is a picture of R.M.T. Hunter. This note was printed on pink paper with black ink on the front and blue ink on the back. The hand inscribed serial number is “112206”.

Original lead ammunition excavated from the Spotsylvania Battlefield near Fredericksburg, Virginia. The bullets at left are; 1. A .58 Federal issue Williams Cleaner used to clean the black powder fouling out of the rifle barrel. There were three to six packed with the regular rounds. 2. The Federal .52 Sharps was a breech loading carbine used primarily by the cavalry. 3. The .58 Springfield was the standard round for all .58 rifles used by the Federal forces. In 1862 the diameter of the .58 was decreased by a fraction to accommodate the .577 Enfield Rifle.
From upper right they are all Confederate issue; 1. A .69 caliber round ball for the smooth bore musket, 2. A .54 caliber for the Mississippi rifle or the Austrian Lorenz rifle. The Lorenz rifle was the third most widely used rifle during the Civil War. The Union recorded purchases of 226,924 and the Confederacy bought as many as 100,000. The round was used by both sides. 3. A Confederate .577 Enfield round imported from England through the blockade or made with imported molds in a southern arsenal. All of these rounds would have used a paper cartridge. The white patina is due to oxidation in the ground.

The battle scene “Bloody Angle” was reproduced from a lithograph done by Prang in the 1870's.

The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House was the second major battle in Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign of the Civil War. Following the bloody but inconclusive Battle of the Wilderness, Grant's army disengaged from General Robert E. Lee's army and moved to the southeast. Elements of Lee's army beat the Union army to the critical crossroads of Spotsylvania Court House, buy Virginia, and began entrenching. Fighting occurred on and off from May 8 through May 21, 1864.

The hand made solid Poplar frame with distressed milk paint finish (Black over red) is 12” x 16” (glass) in size. The matting is light brown. All of the frame and display work was done in our cabinet shop here in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The frame is ready to hang. The wire is recessed which allows the frame to rest flat back to the wall as in a museum mount. The “bumpons” on each back corner protect the wall and keep the frame level.

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