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CS 6-POUNDER SOLID SHOT ON orig WOODEN SABOT

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Militaria Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 750.00 USD
CS 6-POUNDER SOLID SHOT ON orig WOODEN SABOT
CS 6-POUNDER SOLID SHOT ON orig WOODEN SABOT. Excavated. Professionally conserved. Tin straps are intact and wood sabot is best excavated condition. As per The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Series I, Volume XLIV, report number 90 of Colonel William Hawley, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry, states that on or around November 22, 1864, Hawley's troops threw 170 boxes of fixed artillery ammunition into the Oconee River at Milledgeville (the wartime capital of Georgia) and also destroyed the weapons that the Confederates has stored in Milledgeville. CONDITION: Iron very lightly pitted. Straps very good to fine and wood sabot in fine condition. 4-55829 JM117 (500-750)