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Rarest Civil War Relic Ever Found
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2024
- Known as "Incredible Odds" this ultra-rare relic from the Civil War is two bullets that smashed into each other, nose to nose, and are now fused together. This piece won best single artifact at the largest Civil War relic show in the country.
They both got to go home? Whoever reloaded faster got to go home.
They likely both were casualties
If they were that close it probably ended with bayonets
Odds are, neither of them went home.
Bingo! Plus there were a ton of other guy shooting at them , the man in the video’s acting like it was just the two of them having a duel😂
Hilarious comment
Crazy fact. They probably didn't make it home...
How you know. How ? I like this story better than yours
@@stanpoanolee9452you enjoy fantasy. Most believe in reality.
Carry on!
@@stanpoanolee9452and that’s the problem with history
You can't call something a fact, then use the word "probably" in a support statement.
You don't have any idea what happened to the men that fired those bullets. There were 1400 casualties at that battle out of 32,000 troops involved. I'd say there's a pretty good chance they made it.
While this is rare, it’s not unheard of, the World War One museum in Kansas City has several examples of this in one of their exhibits and I remember watching a documentary of a D-Day veteran telling a story of how two bullets collided near his face and dropped at his feet, he turned the fused bullets into a pennant and wore them around his neck for luck for the rest of his life.
I don't even think it's that rare for the civil war. There is an estimate that the armies had over 1 billion rounds throughout the war and considering how close to each other they had to be before firing, bullets colliding or ricocheting isn't that rare. Gettysburg museum had a bunch of those when I went there 30 years ago and they were still pulling bullets from the dirt back then.
😂😂😂 Way to piss on this guys parade.
@@ripelcannon in the civil war they didn’t have to be that close. They were using rifles. That’s one of the reasons so many died.
@@Grunttamer the average range between the armies was less than a football field...
@@ripelcannon you could say that the average range was any number of things because the doctrine at the time was to charge….
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No one in their right mind would try and sell anything to that scam artist.
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“guess it’s knives then..”
Your bayonet wasn't already fixed?
Shame.
Prepare to die Sir!
@daviswhite3591 not if I club you with the stock first! Lol
@@muddrudder2656
You would butt-stroke me Sir?
Good luck closing the distance past the pointy end of my long rifle.
Tally Ho!
I'm a practiced butt-stroker and a midnight toker.
I do my killin in the sun.
What's really rare and not talked about much is that right next to those bullets were found to bayonets one Southern and one Northern manufacturing style and they were completely welded together tip to tip! Looks like 2 civil war veterans decided to play a little prank on the relic hunters of the future!
Reminds me of a friend in Afghanistan.
Turns the corner on patrol to see a guy with an AK just about to turn the corner.
He raises - *click*
Guy raises - *click*
He discharges his 40mm smoke garnade.
Smokey.
The odds of finding them is lower than the odds of it happening.
@@draconis9766
Yeah, good point. We find important things all the time.
Well duhhhh. Lol because you can't find what hasn't happened so first you have the rare odds of it happening. Even if they happened all the time like 99% of shots hit head on (obvi dont) point is the odds would STILL be lower to find them even if it was a normal thing to happen in the first place
Two bullets hitting each other like this is one in a trillion. I'm no expert but if I had to guess the two shooters had to be a good distance apart because I think at close range the energy imparted would just make the bullets splatter
@@draconis9766 pretty good doesn't reverse the chances.... re tard
For the confused, I'll try to make it simple......OP is correct because the insanely rare thing must happen first before factoring in the chance to find it. So if there was just a 1% chance of not being able to find it, it technically makes finding one more rare. Let's say it's happened 100 times in history, your chances are to only find 99 of them if 1% won't be found. 100>99
“Remember - switching to your pistol is always faster than reloading.”
Yup but you can switch only so many times a pistol
“They both got to go home”
That’s assuming quite a lot 😂
They likely did, I mean, in alabama the battles there weren’t very savage. Hey, I mean, if something like that can happen, then it was probably intended that both of them go straight home, but obviously anything can happen in a war.
I've visited a man's house in Spanish Fort who has hundreds, if not thousands of civil war relics he dug from his property there, swords, to bullets, to coats, to cannon balls, grape shot, everything.
Grape shot is absolutely terrifying.
@@Phearsumonly when loaded into a cannon. Until then, it’s just heavy ass big little metal balls 🫣😂
It makes me wonder what else is around in europe... I saw a video a bit back some guys found a Russian? Fighter plane and the guy was still in there and some of his stuff was still manageable to read (some how) (I kinda feel like the situation was made up they found papers in tact and legible and the dude crashed in a swamp, the pistol they found didn't look like it'd been in a swamp for 70 some years.) But I guess it goes to show how much stuff gets buried in time.
Soooo many wars have been fought in europe/Asia. It's gotta be a metal detectors wet dream
@@jlo7770 swamps/bogs have zero oxygen, so nothing tends to deteriorate in them. They have found bodies that are thousands of years old in them with skin and hair still intact!
@@maeve4686 it was so amazing, although some of them were still live.... lol
I’m happy that the North and the South came together. United we stand, divided we fall. GOD Bless anyone who’s reading this. You’re friend from NJ
🤠😉🏴kinda...sorta...Bubba.
From ohio hope we can keep it together with the decisive politics the way they are. 🇺🇸
I grew up in Spanish Fort and still live up the road .
There are still the trenches in Spanish Fort neighborhood. We used to play Civil War on them.
How often did kids complain about playing the Yankee side?
Lol... some days we would fight over it. Nobody wanted to be the Yankees down here 😆
@@justin6354 I wish we played that up north instead of cowboys and Indians.
That is Steve Phillips. He’s one of the owners of Souther Skin Divers Supply. They’ve been around for decades. He’s a good guy. Nice family. His home is nothing but a civil war museum. He tracked down his ancestor’s civil war musket. Has it displayed above his mantle.
Who would want to remember those traitors?
@@eboogie6158 one could make the same argument for the colonists. They were considered traitors to the crown.
@@eboogie6158 what makes them traitors? This country is founded upon freedom, yes? Even today, a state can secede from the Union, though it will get struck down by congress. The idea that a group that wants to separate itself from what it views as tyranny and set up its own government is what started the country we now know today.
Exactly, founded upon freedom. Which makes their slavery the worst treachery. @@thewanderingheathen
@@Riplee find me a nation that never took slaves.
I don't know about go home but they damn sure miss their shot
Or nailed it…. “John wick, Cival War” comes out November 11th
Their aims were true, both of them.
For the bullets to hit each other they had to be literally aiming right at each other's head... If either one of them was off even slightly..
In case someone isn't a bright lightbulb. If one of them was off even a little, this relic wouldn't exist and one of them would have a hole in their skull.
Looks dead on to me
They were probably confused as hell since they both knew they were aiming at each other but when the smoked cleared they were still standing.
Each man took his shot then said, "Whelp, guess I'll call it a day." and went back home safely and unperturbed of the whole ordeal and drank some tea.
Coffee
Non taxed tea.
Sounds legit 👌
Yeah well all they had were single shot rifles, once you shoot it what are you gonna do? That's why they had picnics on the battlefields, something for the soldiers to do on break😂
@@DroneBeeStrike you reload and fire 😂 you're not getting paid for your service, to sit around and count dandelions.
“And they both got to go home” enough to make a grown man cry, also neither of them probably made it home
As a southerner I agree
@scottbivins4758 why not? The majority who served survived. Many died, but even more lived.
I like how he makes his own story up. They both got to go home as if neither of them pulled the trigger a second time.
bwahahaha yeah with those banana clips they had
No. ,250 at least
@@stephenfresh1754they didn't have banana clips. Yer comment is be kinda stroopit.
/Nose touching /
"they both got to go home".... Wishful thinking 😂 i doubt they stopped shooting after the bullets hit
I mean you have as much evidence as he does
@@370enjoyernot really,. Considering no one probably knew the bullets made perfect contact to begin with
@@370enjoyer
That's not technically true. They have the probability that war doesn't stop the second something rare and cool happens most times. As well as the fact that this stuff is really loud and they likely wouldn't have noticed, like another said. They have more probability for them not having stopped than them stopping.
Probably the Rebels ran out of ammo or passed out from starvation by this point...
Those Southern guys were hardcore. They fought long past the point where it made a bit of sense because that's who they were.
Even growing up in Maine, that was always made very clear. In a war between hard men, the Confederates were even harder men than our guys. They were just up against a merciless, industrial war machine that they couldn't quite understand.
@@ianmedford4855 The civil war was the victory of the capitalist system and its moneymaking machine. Very different than the garbage taught in schools.
Proof of how much lead was flying that day, given the accuracy of the rifles of the time
An average shooter could hit targets at up to 250-300 yards with rifles of the day. Well trained soldier's were accurate up to ~800 yards. Sharpshooter could hit most targets inside 1k yard. Rifles of the day werent unreliable as many think. They came a long way in the decades prior.
People shoot a lot of bullets during a war? Thanks for telling us that, professor......
Rifles in the 1800s where very accurate
@funny3scene the second rifling was used they became much more accurate,
You obviously have no idea what you're talking about if you don't think their rifles were accurate 😂
These weren't smooth bored muskets my bro
The man understands beauty, that is for sure.
That is the most incredible and significant civil war find I have heard of. Magnificent story, thank you 😊
I’ve seen the same example of this at Petersburg National battlefield park in their museum.
Crazy that humans have shot each other enough times for this to be statistically possible.
And the smart ass award goes to that’s right you sir. Statistically speaking.
That’s Crazy…. What an Amazing find
It's fake.
You are fake@@DontarrestmePLZ
Pinch of salt required
Priceless! You can tell those two bullets are the focal point in his entire collection and who ever inherits those bullets will probably sell it for a few hundred dollars with no care how much it meant to their grandparent. It happens all the time.
Maybe it’ll go to someone that’ll appreciate it then.
If somebody sells it, it'll go for a lot more than "a few hundred".
The guys talking like it was a duel, forgetting there were entire companies of men shooting and beating each other to death in the most violent way imaginable! One or none, we will never know.
That's a fact..... It would be impossible to even try to imagine the horror and unbelievable carnage that went down between these forces ..... Don't care whichaway you were from... The men who fought in this war were, by any stretch of imagination, were nothing but badass.... I think all and every soldier, should be appreciated for their commitment.....
@@michaelgreene2920 I agree 1000%! I grew up in North Florida, in Duval and baker county. Our family would visit the Olustee battlefield in Sanderson during the reenactment, it was a neat experience!
@@hansemmen3862 I heard that about the reenactment... They also have them in a small town a couple miles down the road from where I live.... I love to watch people jump when they fire off the Canon's... They will literally jump a foot off the ground, even when they know that they are fixxin to fire them off.... You can't help it, it's a reflex that just happens..... Doesn't matter if you are young or old.... It gets them all..... I can't even imagine what it would be like to have had listened to those canon firing and fighting for your life at the same time..... They were very brave on both sides.....
Entire regiments
Same at Gettysburg the volley was so thick they hit mid air , amazing
Thats awesome, i didnt know that came from spanish fort. I live in daphne and never hear of this artifact coming from here.
I Said the same thing.. lake forest here :)
My dad was from spanish fort i miss going there every summer. He moved from there to clarksville tn to join army at fort campbell ✌️
From over in bayou la batre ,do you know about the battle of mobile bay? The first time submersible was used in battle . Pretty cool history
There was a foot trail going across the bay right above the causeway from Mobile to Blakely Island, the fighting was around Blakely Island. There's all kind of civil war artifacts around there and dauphin island.
@@richardlong9189 I heald a bayonet found at fort gains dauphin island and dude I know that had it lost it somehow
Pondering the odds of such a bullet impacting another bullet like this. Mind boggling.
I have a bullet that looks exactly like those! Not the fused bullet, but one of the brown clay-ish ones used as a reference in the display.
That didn’t mean they went home.!!! That means there was so many bullets flying that there was no way of goin home
That probably wasn't all that rare, especially if you have hundreds or thousands of infantry firing at each other all at once.
There are dozens of examples out there.
I have 1 that I found in my great grandfather's field in Virginia, and have several that were stuck in trees and we chopped out the chuck of wood with them in it! And there's still so much to be found!
“They both got to go home”
Yea, I bet that’s EXACTLY how that turned out lmao
That is amazing! I very much like the story as well. Thank you for sharing.
I live 5 mins from there.. never heard of this.. pretty cool
You’ve got to take a day to go visit Blakely State Park! It’s just a few miles up 225 from the Rouse’s in Spanish Fort. Walk around the battlefields. Get a feel for life in the 1860’s. There’s a lot of amazing things to learn, many of them, pretty disturbing. But this stuff DID happen, right here in our back yard.
Probably found in the trenches in the woods I played in as a kid.
It's all a housing development now
The built houses over civil war trenches that were still in the woods? What damn shame man. I'm suprised nobody put it on the protected historic registry.
@@LuziannMan should have been, but it was private property
When old man Fuller died his sons sold off the property.
It's the site of the last battle of the Civil War and was fought after the surrender.
If you look up Purvis Road in Spanish Fort you'll see a pin for Bill Purvis Contracting.
All that land around that is my mothers family land for the past 100 years.
As family died off my uncle was able to buy the land to keep it in the family.
But the trenches were around what is now General Canby Drive.
There's a statue to commemorate the Negro Troops that fought there
@@LuziannMansadly Spanish fort estates
@@LuziannManhell they have paved over entire cemetaries of confederate dead.
This is the only country in the "free" world that has so much so self hatred and so little respect for its history.
It is rewritten and erased daily.
Just because their bullets hit, doesn't mean they went home man, because bullets were flying everywhere.
I live in the south near a lot of confederate areas and on our property many years ago my great grandfather found a Union bullet lodged in a tree that was being cut down, he cut the wood chunk out and we still have the bullet lodged in the piece of wood on display.
How does he know for certain that they both got to go home?
because its a made up story.....
He doesnt know and he cant know.
He doesn’t know. Nobody knows. I doubt the men that shot those bullets even know. But imagining they got to go home isn’t all that bad.
In his world, they did, for sure. With his age, he created his own story, a true creator. That level of thinking has brought him to his ripe age, happily. He built his life around his story. That's faith. IYKYK
@@americanfirst913think of all the new chores to be done though
I live less than 10 mins away from there and have probably walked over the exact spot that this artifact was dug from !!! The Eastern Shore is such a rich area as far as history is concerned !!!
My dad has a civil war bullet that has been flattened by human molars. It was dug up at the site where the Gettysburg field hospital was. Truly a “bite the bullet” relic
"and they both got to go home" is a line to live by
Glad Someone was there to see these bullets collide together 😅😅
There was technically a lot of people there. Alive and unalived by said bullets
How do you know "they both got to go home"?
Guess Jack and Charlie talked a lot after the war about they where trying to shoot one another but they both hit eightother bullets😂.
They both probably died near seconds this happens and nobody of those army's ever knew this happend even the two soldiers who did this don't know. Was not like guys stop shooting Jack and Charlie did something cool let's look for the bullet they shot.😂 but its a nice story he also could say this was a sign north and south went together or something like that.
“They both got to go home. So I like this story” incredible!
I haven’t seen this artifact in a while.
Always was such an incredible freak occurrence. Very neat stuff!
Show that to everybody who says a gun can't be thought of as a shield
I am saying you COULD use your gun as a shield...but this story... 🐂 💩 though it is, is talking about round striking round and fusing with each other wich is a total different race...and again a total 🐂 💩 story 😊
Fake…just like a Jackalope
It was found in the skeleton of a jackalope
What at all do you mean ? It's totally authentic! I'm sure that they must have a certificate of authenticity from the Bradford exchange!
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Wow. That’s worth more than a single award but at least a decade of awards and then a few more!!
Thats a cool story and definitely a very cool relic to have.. wow..
And it wasn’t fought over slavery.
Or they died from another round
Gettysburg fighting So Intense..Many rifles found with multiple loaded bullets..Didn't know they weren't discharged.
BANG!! "...Shucks, well, I guess we both get to go home."
It's incredible that he knew what he was looking at when he found it. It's absolutely incredible! I would have passed right by it.
The best way for the universe to say "Stop killing one another, you are brothers and sisters!"
it just shows you how many shots were being fired in that war, for the odds of that happening are so low that it takes A LOT of firing for that to happen, and be found hundreds of years later.
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Love that people collect relics of a defeated war.
Steve Phillips has an amazing collection!!
This happened more often than you would think in old wars.
Imagine the sound it made. Spinning so fast
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I've dug bullets. But nothing like that. Awesome display as well. God bless you
Switching to your buddy’s knife is always faster than finding a loaded musket
When you think about how many bullets were in the air at the same time from opposite sides of a battle, it would make sense for some of them to have hit each other in mid-air
I have a partial cannon ball fragment from Artillery Ridge, found while looking for survey monuments. It has been a trusted and reliable door stop for about 15 years now.
It happened way more than you'd think possible. The fact that people find any is proof it had to happen almost regularly.
An old friend of mine my junior high school coach was a relic hunter and if I recollect correctly, although it has been 41 years, he found a couple of bullets that had collided in flight. He had a whole hog trough full of bullets. He found a brass Confederate belt buckle in so good a shape, and he wore it on his belt to school. This was around Yorktown Virginia
This happened so often at gettysburg its crazy how much lead was flying
When I was a kid I always wondered if two bullets hit in midair in WW1, but thought it'd be impossible to ever know without time travel and supercomputers. Turns out there's multiple examples of "fused" bullets in museums around the world.
Yeah really the best part of the story is how noone got injured by these specific two bullets.
Reminds me of those two bullets that collided in World War 1 on display on a museum too.
There is a display of another one in the Gettysburg Battlefield Museum. Awesome!
My great grandmother had uniforms from The Civil War where our relatives fought in the War.
I've been metal detecting for years and dig civil war relics, i still wouldnt know what i was looking at, what a find and what an eye to figure that out.
When thousands of rounds are flying, this probably happens more than a few times every battle, but its still cool
There is almost an exact same exhibit in the museum at Gettysburg. The rounds collided at more of an angle but still hit eachother midair.
I have an old book on military weaponry, and they cited a study of the guns picked up from the Gettysburg battlefield. Many of them had misfired, and yet been reloaded multiple times with several charges and bullets (balls?). I think the most found crammed down a barrel was 6 or so.
In the panic of that battle, and with all the smoke and noise, it was assumed that many soldiers didn't even realize that their weapon had not fired... so, they loaded again... and again...
Myth busters tried to do this and found that its incredibly difficult to make happen even with electronic ignition because theres is still a lot of lag in ignition time which makes accurately timing it nearly impossible! Pure luck when it happens in the battle field! I love how this simple fella tbinks these soldiers each only had 1 bullet. Bless his simple kind soul. ❤
The sound that would make would shatter eardrums, wow
I live a few minutes away from Spanish fort, and have found some pretty cool stuff there as well, but that's pretty incredible
People used to make stuff like this all the time. Necklaces or earrings with a penny, belt buckles with bullets or bottle caps.
Before the internet, people used to fill their time crafting stuff. Someone made this as an art piece or something, maybe even at the time of the war as a kind of protest or tribute.
To quote support your local sheriff, "Well it must've saved whoever was wearing its' life" "well it sure would have if it wouldn't have been for all those other bullets flying in from everywhere".
I’ve seen this in a museum, don’t know if it’s the same one but it’s crazy to think this could’ve happened more than once in such an old war with their equipment.
What a beautiful piece of history
They both survived that particular exchange at least.
That whole displace is cool af
My Great, Great Grandfather, fought at Spanish Fort, Alabama with the 94th Illinois Infantry (Union). His name was John Johnson.
Two bullets meeting tip to tip in midair is so rare.
Somehow I think theres some incredible irony at the center of this one. Wholesome story about two wholesome soldiers who actually, y'all, both got to go home. G
It is pretty intense, even with mini balls, troops werent tought to aim at individual troops but instead to just aim at a formation, so for 2 guys opposite of a battlefield to be aimed damn near perfectly at each other and to let their lead fly at nearly the exact millisecond, and their aim so close that they actually hit nose to nose. A million men with a million shots couldn't intentionally pull that off
Thats unreal to imagine the odds and the history of the people after they took that shot.
That's just how much lead was flying in around in the air during the battle! I've seen multiples examples of this and it is amazing! 👍😮👍
WOW amazing History behind it and incredible accuracy 😮
Fun fact. If you keep looking you'll find more. Kinda happens when you have hundreds of men in a line shooting at each other. Thinking they shot one time and went home had me dead.
Dang. I've been looking for an arrowhead in a fossilized bone. I couldn't imagine finding something that cool.
So very awesome. Minute chance of finding that without considering the small chance of it happening at all.
I like that story too. They both got to go home. I certainly hope so!
This is what makes America 🇺🇸 great
Godspeed to All soldier's of war, may they reside in peace. 💙
Just because those 2 bullets hit each doesn’t mean that the people who fired them “got to go home”. I can appreciate the sentiment tho. He sounds like an optimist.
“ And they both got to go home “ this is how mythology, folklore n legends are started ladies n gentlemen…