#1714 - Sideloaded Confederate Read-Parrott Shell
This beautifully preserved shell was recovered from the Battle of Shiloh Pittsburg Landing) site. It has a bent but intact (deeply rifled) brass sabot, and a zinc primer in the nose. It has been cleaned, labeled, and coated. It measures 8 7/8" long, and has a LEAD PLUGGED SIDE LOADING HOLE, a common Confederate technique of manufacture. HISTORY: General Grant’s Army of West Tennessee (numbering over 58,000 union troops) was encamped around the wilderness church at Shiloh, Tennessee. On the morning of April 6,1862, General Johnston advanced his Army of the Mississippi (numbering 43,938 confederate troops) in a surprise attack on the Union forces. The battle raged on for two days, leaving 23,746 men killed, wounded, or missing.
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