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Any one with even a basic grasp of history knows there was never an "American Civil War". That's typical northern revisionism. The War for Southern Independence was not a Civil War. A civil war is what you see in africa with multiple groups vying for power for control of a country. The south never tried to take over or rule the country. They just wanted to keep what they ALREADY had and were legally entitled to. They LEGALLY seceded after all and they didn't try to take over Washington d.c. and the nation. In fact it was the other way around. 90% of the War did occur in the south after all because THEY were the ones invaded. A civil war is also a war between the citizens of ONE country. The War for Southern independence however was a war between two legal and SEPARATE and 2 DIFFERENT countries, with 2 DIFFERENT presidents, 2 different flags, 2 different armies, 2 different national anthems, 2 different constitutions, etc. The word "civil war" is an attempt to obfuscate the souths FULLY LEGAL and righteous cause of self determination and independence as highlighted in the declaration of independence and other writings of the proud southerner Thomas Jefferson, who also would have been a Confederate supporter himself. So stop calling it "the civil war." That's typical northern historical revisionist history.
My mom was a 6th grade teacher she died in 2017 at 92 but each summer we as a family took two weeks of vacation one to the beach in south Carolina the other to historic sites in the south. She tough this to her students. I'm 67 now but I loved her adventures
2:34 And now you know why it was in paint. Lead miners used to have a lot of lead oxide laying around, turned it into very cheap white paint, also helps other paints dry faster.
Great show. I have an 1859 Sharps saddle carbine converted by RS Lawrence to 45/70 Government 1863. This weapon was a US issue before and after the conversion. I had 20 rounds made by a gunsmith years back. I have shot it 10 times, and its accuracy was astonishing, and it devastates red bricks. I do understand these wounds. I have had the weapon evaluated several times, but it can't be verified if used in the civil war.
My son and I hired Michael Rupert, a registered battlefield tour guide at Gettysburg a couple years ago. Great tour. Incredibly knowledgeable. I recommend doing so if you go to there.
Back in 1981, a friend of mine with his wife & kids RENTED a very old house in Guntersville Alabama, to live in. The house was an official historic landmark. The reason, is about 6.5 feet above the floor, there was an original cannon ball still lodged in the kitchen wall, with a wooden frame with a hinged door built around it. You reached up to open the little wooden door, to see the hole in the wall, along with written information inside the frame, stating the cannon ball that was lodged in a wall stud, was fired during the civil war.
Years ago I had a friend claim he had found a bullet stuck in a big rock, which unfortunately I don’t remember the battle field now; Strange things happen in war. As for all those types of bullets used, had I been in that war, I think dying from gunshot would be the lesser worry, instead being horribly wounded. And no matter how many times I see the skull of the soldier from the 54th, it was one of the more devastating things one can see from that war; poor guy probably was dead on his feet instantly. Props to Eric for his knowledge 👍
Lucky enough to live only be 3 hours from Gettyburg, been there more weekends than I care to count over the past decade. If you're able to make a visit to Gettysburg you won't regret it, great town to visit with tons of history, monuments etc. The museum featured in the video is a great place to go, we always learn something new there. There are also many small shops/museums scattered all over town. There is one that has a section of a tree that is absolutly peppered with lead from both sides. Crazy to think that much was lead just flying all around the soldiers. A stroll through the National Cemetary there is a real eye opener when you see the small markers with just body counts. Was a tragic and brutal battle. The first time we went we took a guided tour bus, I can't really recommend them. Going to the little museums and the one in this video is far more educational. People there are friendly and real civil war buffs, so they are great to chat with. Made many friends down that way over the years, look forward to heading back soon.
The mini ball ammo used during the American Civil War absolutely boggles my mind. They were obviously very different and much heavier than the standard 62 grain (M855) 5.56x45mm green tip NATO cartridges, that we use today.
My Captain I worked for in the Texas State Prison. He did Civil War Reenactment. I once told him I would rather be hit with a Russian 7.62x39 or U.S. 5.56 over a soft .58cal mini all. I've seen the results of being hit by CW rounds on the web. I know being hit by a modern round is bad. But OMG on a 58.
The Surgeons Museum in Edinburgh has medical drawings of the wounds suffered by Waterloo veterans. Brutal wouldn't be in it. Its amazing how by the US Civil War technology had moved on but the tactics were still very much rooted in the times of Waterloo 50 odd years earlier.
I have two lead balls that my mother found at wounded knee. It’s part of my collection of Japanese ceramic grenades, grenade shrapnel from battle of the bulge. Spent 7.7 I found in the dirt near the mouth of Pearl Harbor (actually in the dirt of the Navy house we lived) and a piece of the USS Arizona.
I am a collector of things also but if you believe you have a genuine piece of the USS Arizona you should contact the proper department or organization to return that solemn relic. It would be the right thing to do.
My late father picked up a piece of a Japanese Zero that missed him by a few yards, and I have the Japanese submarine steering wheel that he took off a surrendered sub, right after the war.
1 very important thing left out about the mini balls is they were made hollow so they could expand because it made them easy to load shot after shot. If they were solid you'd only be able to shoot twice because you'd never get another bullet in the barrel until it cooled down.
It does but the mini ball is made so that even if it gets hot and expands you can still load it relatively fast. I hunted with a .58 caliber muzzle loader and a .45 caliber. The .45 used a solid bullet and after you shot it you had the hit the ramrod on a tree to get the bullet down the barrel. The .58 was as easy as the 1st time to load shot after shot.
The heat of the barrel has nothing to do with it. It has to do with the buildup of black powder residue. If you had to hit the ramrod against a tree to load a second round in a .45 caliber rifle you are seriously doing something wrong.
When I was a kid I saw a picture of a Civil War rifle where a bullet fired from the other side entered the muzzle of the rifle just as it was fired. The bullet meet and burst the barrel. Who knows if that's what really happened.
Thanks Kindly for a Great piece of history! I live 65mi. East of Gettysburg and have been there many times. But the next time I’ll be stopping at the museum and buy some bullets,,,,,after seeing this amazing collection of history! Peace and Joy of Being! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
Anyone heard of the “battle of the bees?” Around Hollywood Arkansas. I was told there was a battle that stirred up a huge bee hive and both sides went running!
I have discovered recently that I have four relatives from my family that fought at Gettysburg with the 151st Pennsylvania....that may be why I have always been drawn to this battle above others....and one is listed on the Pennsylvania memorial there.,
Thank you, having visited the Gettysburg battlefield, I love you videos that give me extra info….all wars are terrible but civil wars are worse, my thoughts go out to all the brave men who fought and died at these terrible places.
Most Minie bullets were around .58" and over an ounce in weight. Soft, pure lead that could deform on impact. I've owned a couple of civil war style rifles and cast the bullets myself, and they do hit pretty hard.
Fascinating and terrifying at the same time. How men stood and faced up to this stuff flying at them I really don’t know. Honestly don’t think I could.
The Minet Ball was the round that changed warfare forever. From that point, the hunt for a better rifling round was on. Fun Fact- Trench warfare was first employed in the American Civil War. One could say, in a way, the American Civil War was a prologue to WW1.
After the Battle of Gettysburg soldiers of the Union Army gathered the arms and equipment they could find on the battlefield to send back to the ordinance department for inspection repairs and reissue and found a dozen rifled muskets discarded on Little Round Top had been panick loaded whereupon the infantrymen kept loading without firing a shot. One of those muskets were loaded from breech to muzzle with minnie balls.
instrumental in the fact that future army loads were switched to full metal jacket rounds and the Geneva Convention which is where the dont fire on hospitals or parachutes till they are on the ground rule but my dad said both happened regulary
The Minie ball was the first rifled musket shot. It was invented by Claude-E'tienne Minié and Henri-Gustave Dolvigue, in 1849 and was first used by the French Foreign Legion to devastate Arabs in Algiers. The US calls it the Mini ball for short. The US had two calibers of the thing, 58 and 69 calibers. It was accurate to 250 yards. And would most often crush bone which is why there were so many amputations in the Civil War.
yes, lead oxide is white, just like the paint pigment used up until the 70’ you can quick age bullets by putting them in the ground with urea for about a year. they go from shinny lead to white in color. neat seeing all the variations in bullets!
When I was 16 I was on a mission trip in an indigenous village in Panama not too far from Panama City. We were taking bucket-fulls of rocks out of a small river and using them to fill in and repair a washed out dirt road. At one point I reached in and pulled out a pristine cannon ball that probably weighed 15-20 pounds. I didn't know what to do with it so I just threw it back into river and it's probably still there today. I still think about that sometimes and where it came from. Pirates in the 1600's? Balboa's conquest of Panama in the 1500's? Who knows!
During the Napoleonic wars all armies used skirmishers or light infantry. These troops would be in front of their massed, in line or column, troops and were used to disrupt attacking troops, pick off officers and nco's and generally harass the enemy. They were about 10% of the main force. they were trained to use whatever cover was available. By the time of the ACW, 45 years later, skirmishers comprised of up to 50% of the attacking force with the other 50% following behind to be used as a block to smash through the enemy line. I also discovered recently that Civil war troops taking a defensive position would dig rudimentary trenches without being told to.
My great grandfather took one of these minie balls in the chest during the Civil War - he survived with it in his chest for 52 years , fathering 12 children and operating a successful leather goods business in Dahlonega . When he was shipped from Appomattox to Charleston a lady found him laying on a sidewalk ,gave him strong coffee and dressed the wound with a salve he said smelled so bad they could smell him before he would arrive in heaven . It must have saved him . He said all they had on the boat to Charleston for food was hard tack and stale water.
The Burnside actually was not truly self-contained. A true "self-contained" cartridge has powder, bullet, primer, and casing all in one (the Spencer cartridge was truly self-contained, being a rimfire cartridge like an oversized .22 - which itself was introduced by Smith and Wesson in their first revolver a few years prior to the Civil War). The Burnside and Sharps cartridges required a separate percussion primer (the Burnside used standard musket caps, the Sharps used either caps or Sharps' patented pellet primers).
The things we choose to care about (e.g., exploding bullets), SMH. I still subscribe to Sherman's view: "War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
I absolutely love this museum! I have spent sooooo much money on civil war money there! Lets hope this is the last time our country needs to have a civil war!
I love this video and I’ve learned so much, especially being a metal detectorist that has found one or two of these. I hate to be that guy but I did notice in the museum on one of the handwritten notes by a bullet in a fence post that Emmitsburg was spelled incorrectly. Maybe that’s retained as a historical note I’m not sure.
I never knew that the Southern States actually left the Union, voted to reincorporate as a separate nation and then faced invasion from a foreign nation - the United States. It wasn’t a “Civil War”. The Confederate states were already a separate nation. Thanks for your channel!
I dont think it would be a rare occurrence for two bullets to collide when you have thousands of men on each side firing at one another. I dont tnink it was a matter of if you were shot back then, but when and what part of the body? Ive read several memoirs from the period and the writer would get shot, go to the hospital after two weeks, get patched up then go out and get shot again. The amount of grit a man had to have back then is unbelievable. I am a combat vet myself and I dont think Id have the balls to stand up on the front line and face 1000 men who are about to send thousands of bullets and grape shot my way under zero cover.
My Dad dug 29 pounds of all kinds of minie balls and Shot at the main Confederate Charge on The Goldsboro Road in 1978 , Battle of Bentonville N.C.march 19-21 1865..All day in that field....
I found what appears to be a mini ball that I found in Weber Canyon Utah that is too large to be a rifle. It was fired into the cliff rock and pretty smashed but you can still see the groves. It's been studied but no conclusion as to what type of gun it was fired from. If anyone knows please help me out. It must be a small cannon 🤔.
@@garyacker7388 If it has a hollow base it could be a muzzle loader. If the base is solid it is most likely breach load. It could be a light canon pulled behind the U.S Cavelry.
@@jamesferris4573 yes I think it was from a "pack cannon" of some sort. There was going to be a standoff from the Mormons against the army but it was settled and supposedly the only casualty was some guy shot across the canyon and hit his friend. It could be a replica of a mountain cannon or guys were tired of hauling all this way and decided to shoot it once. I found it completely by accident and kept it.
That's kind of the idea..To kill or wound you bad enough so you will die.. And takes 4 or 5 people to carry you off the battlefield and take care of you..Ties up a lot of people.. to take care of the wounded..
Whitworth polygon bore rifles; nothing shoulder-fired shoots better. Not even today! Very sought after on both sides, the Confederates put them to good use. Six-sided bullets of enormous size.
The most devastating thing on the battlefield wasn't the bullets used but the outdated tactics used. The Minie ball made Napoleaonic era formations obselete but the Generals didn't understand that. Just line the men up like in the old days and let them get mown down from 300 yards. Simply horrific.
Oh, I don’t know about that. How about surgery without anesthetic or and sanitizing of instruments and dressings whatsoever? More soldiers died of infection than any other causes.
@@Frankie5Angels150 You're wrong about the anesthesia. Civil War doctors had barrels of chloroform and ether at their disposal - it wasn't expensive or rare. Surgeries were conducted under the lowest level of anesthesia so they didn't stop a weak patient's breathing and kill the guy - there were no respirator machines back then for deep anesthesia. A lot of guys reported being dimly aware of their surgery but unable to feel any pain or sensations. Others thrashed and moaned but later reported no memory of the surgery. This was considered a vast improvement over the alternative either way. Morphine and opium was available by the bushel and prescribed liberally for post-surgical pain (and everything else), but was not used for surgery. The one thing they needed that they didn't have was antibiotics... since nobody yet agreed that bacteria even existed.
A buddy of mine did re-enacting for years. I finally went to one in Cedar Creek (VA). According to him, it was the only re-enactment permitted on the actual battlefield. Can't remember exactly why, other than the Park Service owns a lot of these battlefields--maybe the land where they fought Cedar Creek was privately owned. In any case, the opposing ranks of guys where only about 60 yards apart in the open iirc. I just thought at the time how friggin' CRAZY it was that they would still be doing that, and how massive the casualties would have been. Balls of steel to do that, knowing what was coming.
@@Frankie5Angels150 Infections from wounds sustained on the battlefield. Change formations and include cover as part of tactics and the number of soldiers being wounded and requiring medical aid, and hence infections, is reduced. The medical treatment is an effect, not a cause.
Love this video! I was walking on a dirt path on East Cemetery Hill in Gettysburg one morning after a night of hard rain and found a Confederate Gardner-pattern (two-ring) bullet that had impacted a rock during flight and embedded in the ground. It has the same striations on one side as Eric’s bullet. It was an amazing feeling to think the last person to have touched it was a Confederate soldier 141 years before the rain washed it to the surface and I picked it up. I always wonder if that man survived the battle & the war. I hope he did.
It may very well have been a Union soldier who was the last person to touch it if it passed through him before striking the rock. Who knows? Lucky find and great story.
I found a civil war era bullet when I was a kid. I was walking through a freshly plowed field looking for arrow heads. My grandpa told me what it was and that it was probably from a hunter who was a veteran of the war that used his battle rifle, because there were no known battle fields in the area (southern Indiana). I don’t have a clue what I did with it, as it was well over 30 years ago.
You two guys are a great team. I'm looking forward to going back to Gettysburg and watching these videos while I'm back at the battlefield. Thanks for posting this.
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The civil war medical history is such an important part of understanding why this is the bloodiest war the USA ever fought
Done.
Not when it's wrong, mate.
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Any one with even a basic grasp of history knows there was never an "American Civil War". That's typical northern revisionism.
The War for Southern Independence was not a Civil War. A civil war is what you see in africa with multiple groups vying for power for control of a country. The south never tried to take over or rule the country. They just wanted to keep what they ALREADY had and were legally entitled to. They LEGALLY seceded after all and they didn't try to take over Washington d.c. and the nation. In fact it was the other way around. 90% of the War did occur in the south after all because THEY were the ones invaded. A civil war is also a war between the citizens of ONE country. The War for Southern independence however was a war between two legal and SEPARATE and 2 DIFFERENT countries, with 2 DIFFERENT presidents, 2 different flags, 2 different armies, 2 different national anthems, 2 different constitutions, etc.
The word "civil war" is an attempt to obfuscate the souths FULLY LEGAL and righteous cause of self determination and independence as highlighted in the declaration of independence and other writings of the proud southerner Thomas Jefferson, who also would have been a Confederate supporter himself.
So stop calling it "the civil war." That's typical northern historical revisionist history.
My mom was a 6th grade teacher she died in 2017 at 92 but each summer we as a family took two weeks of vacation one to the beach in south Carolina the other to historic sites in the south. She tough this to her students. I'm 67 now but I loved her adventures
2:34 And now you know why it was in paint. Lead miners used to have a lot of lead oxide laying around, turned it into very cheap white paint, also helps other paints dry faster.
Great show. I have an 1859 Sharps saddle carbine converted by RS Lawrence to 45/70 Government 1863. This weapon was a US issue before and after the conversion. I had 20 rounds made by a gunsmith years back. I have shot it 10 times, and its accuracy was astonishing, and it devastates red bricks. I do understand these wounds.
I have had the weapon evaluated several times, but it can't be verified if used in the civil war.
My son and I hired Michael Rupert, a registered battlefield tour guide at Gettysburg a couple years ago. Great tour. Incredibly knowledgeable. I recommend doing so if you go to there.
Back in 1981, a friend of mine with his wife & kids RENTED a very old house in Guntersville Alabama, to live in. The house was an official historic landmark. The reason, is about 6.5 feet above the floor, there was an original cannon ball still lodged in the kitchen wall, with a wooden frame with a hinged door built around it. You reached up to open the little wooden door, to see the hole in the wall, along with written information inside the frame, stating the cannon ball that was lodged in a wall stud, was fired during the civil war.
There's a tree, I believe, on Mobile Bay, that had a 6" cannon ba lodged in it.
@@828enigma6 I bet there is indeed. Probably a bunch of old trees & any structures still standing have cannon balls lodged in em.
thats freakin awesome
Cool!
@@howabouthetruth2157 They say that at the battle of the Wilderness, in Virginia the trees still bear numerous bullets still today.
Years ago I had a friend claim he had found a bullet stuck in a big rock, which unfortunately I don’t remember the battle field now; Strange things happen in war. As for all those types of bullets used, had I been in that war, I think dying from gunshot would be the lesser worry, instead being horribly wounded. And no matter how many times I see the skull of the soldier from the 54th, it was one of the more devastating things one can see from that war; poor guy probably was dead on his feet instantly. Props to Eric for his knowledge 👍
Definitely learned a lot while filming this episode. Hope that others get something out of it as well!
Lucky enough to live only be 3 hours from Gettyburg, been there more weekends than I care to count over the past decade. If you're able to make a visit to Gettysburg you won't regret it, great town to visit with tons of history, monuments etc. The museum featured in the video is a great place to go, we always learn something new there. There are also many small shops/museums scattered all over town. There is one that has a section of a tree that is absolutly peppered with lead from both sides. Crazy to think that much was lead just flying all around the soldiers. A stroll through the National Cemetary there is a real eye opener when you see the small markers with just body counts. Was a tragic and brutal battle.
The first time we went we took a guided tour bus, I can't really recommend them. Going to the little museums and the one in this video is far more educational. People there are friendly and real civil war buffs, so they are great to chat with. Made many friends down that way over the years, look forward to heading back soon.
The mini ball ammo used during the American Civil War absolutely boggles my mind. They were obviously very different and much heavier than the standard 62 grain (M855) 5.56x45mm green tip NATO cartridges, that we use today.
My Captain I worked for in the Texas State Prison. He did Civil War Reenactment. I once told him I would rather be hit with a Russian 7.62x39 or U.S. 5.56 over a soft .58cal mini all. I've seen the results of being hit by CW rounds on the web. I know being hit by a modern round is bad. But OMG on a 58.
The two hundred year old bullets were different? “Obviously” didn’t need to tell us that
Wow! Different? Amazing!
I drive for a living, I pass through Gettysburg on a regular basis on us 15. I don’t park there at night, seen some questionable things.
The Surgeons Museum in Edinburgh has medical drawings of the wounds suffered by Waterloo veterans. Brutal wouldn't be in it. Its amazing how by the US Civil War technology had moved on but the tactics were still very much rooted in the times of Waterloo 50 odd years earlier.
Wow! I would love to see that.
Thank you for this video. Hugs from Brazil.
God bless museums and people behind them. Great video and explanations, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have two lead balls that my mother found at wounded knee.
It’s part of my collection of Japanese ceramic grenades, grenade shrapnel from battle of the bulge. Spent 7.7
I found in the dirt near the mouth of Pearl Harbor (actually in the dirt of the Navy house we lived) and a piece of the USS Arizona.
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I am a collector of things also but if you believe you have a genuine piece of the USS Arizona you should contact the proper department or organization to return that solemn relic. It would be the right thing to do.
My late father picked up a piece of a Japanese Zero that missed him by a few yards, and I have the Japanese submarine steering wheel that he took off a surrendered sub, right after the war.
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You are absolutely right. I picked it up when I was young, stupid and 10.
1 very important thing left out about the mini balls is they were made hollow so they could expand because it made them easy to load shot after shot. If they were solid you'd only be able to shoot twice because you'd never get another bullet in the barrel until it cooled down.
Barrel should expand as it heats up
It does but the mini ball is made so that even if it gets hot and expands you can still load it relatively fast. I hunted with a .58 caliber muzzle loader and a .45 caliber. The .45 used a solid bullet and after you shot it you had the hit the ramrod on a tree to get the bullet down the barrel. The .58 was as easy as the 1st time to load shot after shot.
@@spannaspinna also when it expands it goes in and out.
The heat of the barrel has nothing to do with it. It has to do with the buildup of black powder residue. If you had to hit the ramrod against a tree to load a second round in a .45 caliber rifle you are seriously doing something wrong.
@@spannaspinna he has no idea what he's talking about.
👏 Fantastic! Love your Program!
When I was a kid I saw a picture of a Civil War rifle where a bullet fired from the other side entered the muzzle of the rifle just as it was fired. The bullet meet and burst the barrel. Who knows if that's what really happened.
Interesting.
Thanks Kindly for a Great piece of history! I live 65mi. East of Gettysburg and have been there many times. But the next time I’ll be stopping at the museum and buy some bullets,,,,,after seeing this amazing collection of history! Peace and Joy of Being! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
Anyone heard of the “battle of the bees?” Around Hollywood Arkansas. I was told there was a battle that stirred up a huge bee hive and both sides went running!
Ever look it up? Just curious.
I have discovered recently that I have four relatives from my family that fought at Gettysburg with the 151st Pennsylvania....that may be why I have always been drawn to this battle above others....and one is listed on the Pennsylvania memorial there.,
Thank you, having visited the Gettysburg battlefield, I love you videos that give me extra info….all wars are terrible but civil wars are worse, my thoughts go out to all the brave men who fought and died at these terrible places.
Informative as always. Thank you gentlemen.
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Keeping History alive 1 episode at a time. Nice work.
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Most Minie bullets were around .58" and over an ounce in weight. Soft, pure lead that could deform on impact. I've owned a couple of civil war style rifles and cast the bullets myself, and they do hit pretty hard.
I find it so interesting when you are actually on-site at Gettysburg Museum of History looking at artifacts.
Me too!
Fascinating and terrifying at the same time. How men stood and faced up to this stuff flying at them I really don’t know. Honestly don’t think I could.
The Minet Ball was the round that changed warfare forever. From that point, the hunt for a better rifling round was on.
Fun Fact- Trench warfare was first employed in the American Civil War. One could say, in a way, the American Civil War was a prologue to WW1.
That was so informative, I did not know there were so many refiled weapons at that time, I thought they were all muskets, well made video.
Pretty cool! Thanks!
After the Battle of Gettysburg soldiers of the Union Army gathered the arms and equipment they could find on the battlefield to send back to the ordinance department for inspection repairs and reissue and found a dozen rifled muskets discarded on Little Round Top had been panick loaded whereupon the infantrymen kept loading without firing a shot.
One of those muskets were loaded from breech to muzzle with minnie balls.
what a nasty PTSD nightmare that could have caused if they survived that battle
My wife and I got to visit the museum last fall. You really could spend half a day in there to take it all in.
100%
The sides should have got together and agreed to ban the Minie ball.
Great video. Thanks for teaching me something today.
instrumental in the fact that future army loads were switched to full metal jacket rounds and the Geneva Convention which is where the dont fire on hospitals or parachutes till they are on the ground rule but my dad said both happened regulary
Just ordered the 7 bullet set for homeschooling. Great video!
Awesome!!! Hope that they enjoy it.
Just added another place to my vacation list.
Awesome! You'll love it there.
The Minie ball was the first rifled musket shot. It was invented by Claude-E'tienne Minié and Henri-Gustave Dolvigue, in 1849 and was first used by the French Foreign Legion to devastate Arabs in Algiers. The US calls it the Mini ball for short. The US had two calibers of the thing, 58 and 69 calibers. It was accurate to 250 yards. And would most often crush bone which is why there were so many amputations in the Civil War.
Another very enriching episode, improbable the two bullets which are returned in fusion one in the other!!
Hey! I didn’t know about the oxidation turning led white… 🤯
Pretty cool.
That’s what they use to make artists lead white oil paint 🎨
@@v12dot really? I feel dumb but must admit…I never thought about it!
yes, lead oxide is white, just like the paint pigment used up until the 70’ you can quick age
bullets by putting them in the ground with urea for about a year. they go from shinny lead
to white in color. neat seeing all the variations in bullets!
Cleaner bullets Pretty much a stroke of genius. Theoretically.
What amazed me most is the damages you see on the trees...!!!
You see thoses big black holes on the trees you can imagine on a human body........
Hard to wrap your mind around.
When I was 16 I was on a mission trip in an indigenous village in Panama not too far from Panama City. We were taking bucket-fulls of rocks out of a small river and using them to fill in and repair a washed out dirt road. At one point I reached in and pulled out a pristine cannon ball that probably weighed 15-20 pounds. I didn't know what to do with it so I just threw it back into river and it's probably still there today. I still think about that sometimes and where it came from. Pirates in the 1600's? Balboa's conquest of Panama in the 1500's? Who knows!
During the Napoleonic wars all armies used skirmishers or light infantry. These troops would be in front of their massed, in line or column, troops and were used to disrupt attacking troops, pick off officers and nco's and generally harass the enemy. They were about 10% of the main force. they were trained to use whatever cover was available.
By the time of the ACW, 45 years later, skirmishers comprised of up to 50% of the attacking force with the other 50% following behind to be used as a block to smash through the enemy line.
I also discovered recently that Civil war troops taking a defensive position would dig rudimentary trenches without being told to.
That's so cool JD. Awesome video my friend.
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My great grandfather took one of these minie balls in the chest during the Civil War - he survived with it in his chest for 52 years , fathering 12 children and operating a successful leather goods business in Dahlonega . When he was shipped from Appomattox to Charleston a lady found him laying on a sidewalk ,gave him strong coffee and dressed the wound with a salve he said smelled so bad they could smell him before he would arrive in heaven . It must have saved him . He said all they had on the boat to Charleston for food was hard tack and stale water.
Fantastic. Thank you both.
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Gives a new meaning to tree 🌲 hugging …….
The white patina oxidation is what was used to make white paint
I have several of these from the battle of Corinth Mississippi .
This is absolutely spectacular... Thank you very much.
All that lead. I definitely wouldn't want my water well by a old battle field. Because I imagine it's leaking into the soil.
As Always, This was AWESOME!!!
Glad you think so!
@@TheHistoryUnderground Thank You for what You do!!
Truly awesome show
The Burnside actually was not truly self-contained. A true "self-contained" cartridge has powder, bullet, primer, and casing all in one (the Spencer cartridge was truly self-contained, being a rimfire cartridge like an oversized .22 - which itself was introduced by Smith and Wesson in their first revolver a few years prior to the Civil War). The Burnside and Sharps cartridges required a separate percussion primer (the Burnside used standard musket caps, the Sharps used either caps or Sharps' patented pellet primers).
Take me somewhere I will probably never see.
Thanks and see you on the other vids.
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Great video. I found it very interesting.
I really enjoyed the music during this video, but no info on it. Did I miss something? Probably too late to know now.
Now: .50BMG, king of bullets
Civil War: .69, we don't need no king
The things we choose to care about (e.g., exploding bullets), SMH. I still subscribe to Sherman's view: "War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
It is most certainly cruel.
I never herd of a cleaner bullet! Awsome!
I absolutely love this museum! I have spent sooooo much money on civil war money there! Lets hope this is the last time our country needs to have a civil war!
I just found this channel and subed .
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I love this video and I’ve learned so much, especially being a metal detectorist that has found one or two of these. I hate to be that guy but I did notice in the museum on one of the handwritten notes by a bullet in a fence post that Emmitsburg was spelled incorrectly. Maybe that’s retained as a historical note I’m not sure.
Thanks! Appreciate that. And yes, that is the label from the old collection.
Great video, thank you.
Glad you liked it!
They say, it was seen that numerous of the dead, on the battle field were shot with the guns ram rod sticking through the body.
I never knew that the Southern States actually left the Union, voted to reincorporate as a separate nation and then faced invasion from a foreign nation - the United States. It wasn’t a “Civil War”. The Confederate states were already a separate nation. Thanks for your channel!
😯 Wow! Thank you.
Thanks!
Way cool!! Another job well done sir
Thanks for watching!
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The minie ball in the north had unreliable accuracy being too underbore for the Springfield rifle.
I dont think it would be a rare occurrence for two bullets to collide when you have thousands of men on each side firing at one another. I dont tnink it was a matter of if you were shot back then, but when and what part of the body? Ive read several memoirs from the period and the writer would get shot, go to the hospital after two weeks, get patched up then go out and get shot again. The amount of grit a man had to have back then is unbelievable. I am a combat vet myself and I dont think Id have the balls to stand up on the front line and face 1000 men who are about to send thousands of bullets and grape shot my way under zero cover.
The term BITE THE BULLET comes from. You bit the mini ball as they sawed off your leg or arm.
Turns out that was a myth. Most could bite down on a stick or a leather strap.
I am "digging" the music! 😉
Very Interesting I’m History Buff Thank You
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My Dad dug 29 pounds of all kinds of minie balls and Shot at the main Confederate Charge on The Goldsboro Road in 1978 , Battle of Bentonville N.C.march 19-21 1865..All day in that field....
Dang!
If you got shot or injured your done....they just hack your arm or leg off and hope for the best. Such a gruesome terrible war. 😪
I've been there but never saw this place I went the the plantations and stuff though.
Another informative video
Glad you liked it
That was a awesome video
I've dug 8 Explosive bullets.
Wow!
Interesting. Thx.
I'm assuming the bullets still in manufactured form is a dropped bullet?
Yep!
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Was @ the battle Field
In 73"
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Wow l would love to have one of those Confederate bullets. What an awesome piece of history to own.
Does it matter size or shape either way one to your head and done
The end result is the same but the variations are interesting.
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those bullet wounds looked painful, are they ok?
Watched 6-21-22
Nothiiiiing takes a piece of The Rock with it….Can you se-mellllllll what The Rock is coocking!!!!
I was unaware that there were explosive bullets in the civil war
Pretty crazy.
I found what appears to be a mini ball that I found in Weber Canyon Utah that is too large to be a rifle. It was fired into the cliff rock and pretty smashed but you can still see the groves. It's been studied but no conclusion as to what type of gun it was fired from. If anyone knows please help me out. It must be a small cannon 🤔.
Interesting.
@@TheHistoryUnderground yes very! I have it right here on my desk so if you want a picture if you can figure out how I'll send you one.
@@garyacker7388 If it has a hollow base it could be a muzzle loader. If the base is solid it is most likely breach load. It could be a light canon pulled behind the U.S Cavelry.
@@jamesferris4573 yes I think it was from a "pack cannon" of some sort. There was going to be a standoff from the Mormons against the army but it was settled and supposedly the only casualty was some guy shot across the canyon and hit his friend. It could be a replica of a mountain cannon or guys were tired of hauling all this way and decided to shoot it once. I found it completely by accident and kept it.
That's kind of the idea..To kill or wound you bad enough so you will die.. And takes 4 or 5 people to carry you off the battlefield and take care of you..Ties up a lot of people.. to take care of the wounded..
Gee , a bullet designed to kill. ,who would have thunk it !!!
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It is called chain fire
Cool dude
Of course the Irish used tye buck and ball. 😎🙌
Cant see what bullet he is pointing at ..black gloves over black table 3:55
Whitworth polygon bore rifles; nothing shoulder-fired shoots better.
Not even today!
Very sought after on both sides, the Confederates put them to good use.
Six-sided bullets of enormous size.
The most devastating thing on the battlefield wasn't the bullets used but the outdated tactics used. The Minie ball made Napoleaonic era formations obselete but the Generals didn't understand that. Just line the men up like in the old days and let them get mown down from 300 yards. Simply horrific.
Yes!! Exactly!! I tried to say something similar, but you added so much more detail and such!
Oh, I don’t know about that. How about surgery without anesthetic or and sanitizing of instruments and dressings whatsoever?
More soldiers died of infection than any other causes.
@@Frankie5Angels150 You're wrong about the anesthesia. Civil War doctors had barrels of chloroform and ether at their disposal - it wasn't expensive or rare. Surgeries were conducted under the lowest level of anesthesia so they didn't stop a weak patient's breathing and kill the guy - there were no respirator machines back then for deep anesthesia. A lot of guys reported being dimly aware of their surgery but unable to feel any pain or sensations. Others thrashed and moaned but later reported no memory of the surgery. This was considered a vast improvement over the alternative either way. Morphine and opium was available by the bushel and prescribed liberally for post-surgical pain (and everything else), but was not used for surgery.
The one thing they needed that they didn't have was antibiotics... since nobody yet agreed that bacteria even existed.
A buddy of mine did re-enacting for years. I finally went to one in Cedar Creek (VA). According to him, it was the only re-enactment permitted on the actual battlefield. Can't remember exactly why, other than the Park Service owns a lot of these battlefields--maybe the land where they fought Cedar Creek was privately owned. In any case, the opposing ranks of guys where only about 60 yards apart in the open iirc. I just thought at the time how friggin' CRAZY it was that they would still be doing that, and how massive the casualties would have been. Balls of steel to do that, knowing what was coming.
@@Frankie5Angels150 Infections from wounds sustained on the battlefield. Change formations and include cover as part of tactics and the number of soldiers being wounded and requiring medical aid, and hence infections, is reduced. The medical treatment is an effect, not a cause.
I am 7 minutes into this and already learned 3 things I didn’t know…JD, your videos NEVER disappoint!
Awesome! I learned a lot on this one too.
Lisa is ignorant
Haha..learning
If you want some detailed info on this stuff check paper cartridges. Great channel.
Just 3?
Love this video!
I was walking on a dirt path on East Cemetery Hill in Gettysburg one morning after a night of hard rain and found a Confederate Gardner-pattern (two-ring) bullet that had impacted a rock during flight and embedded in the ground. It has the same striations on one side as Eric’s bullet.
It was an amazing feeling to think the last person to have touched it was a Confederate soldier 141 years before the rain washed it to the surface and I picked it up. I always wonder if that man survived the battle & the war. I hope he did.
Wow!
It may very well have been a Union soldier who was the last person to touch it if it passed through him before striking the rock. Who knows? Lucky find and great story.
Would’ve given me chills.
I found a civil war era bullet when I was a kid. I was walking through a freshly plowed field looking for arrow heads. My grandpa told me what it was and that it was probably from a hunter who was a veteran of the war that used his battle rifle, because there were no known battle fields in the area (southern Indiana). I don’t have a clue what I did with it, as it was well over 30 years ago.
You two guys are a great team. I'm looking forward to going back to Gettysburg and watching these videos while I'm back at the battlefield. Thanks for posting this.
Thanks so much! Love Gettysburg.
This was very interesting to see the different style of bullets used during the civil war.thank you.