This Ryker case (6.25” x 5.25”) holds relics from a Confederate post located at Brownsville Pass in the South Mountains. Included are three .58 caliber minie balls (one crewed by squirrel), one bullet hammered flat, four .69 caliber round balls, an iron buckle, and five artillery friction primers. Found by author/publisher Dean Thomas.

During the opening stages of the fight for the passes in the South Mountains, Brigadier General Paul Semmes moved his brigade into the Brownsville Pass believing the Federals were sure to strike there. Also in the Pass was the six-gun battery of Captain Basil Manly’s 1st North Carolina Artillery and one gun each from the Richmond (Virginia) Fayette Artillery and the Magruder (Virginia) Light Artillery. The friction primers included here are no doubt from these guns. No assault came toward Semmes and by the time he realized his error, Crampton’s Gap a mile to the north was being overrun by the Federal troops.  [jet] [ph:jet]

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