APPOMATTOX RELIC COLLECTION

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Item Code: 173-4297

Housed in a handsome Riker display box, these relics came to us as part of a larger acquisition in 1995 from a private museum in Appomattox, Virginia.

The grouping includes 10 dropped .58 caliber bullets and a dug condition ball puller/worm.

Each was excavated from the same site - the last of the centralized camps of the Army of Northern Virginia before and during the surrender to General Grant.

Presumably, these bullets were pulled from personal cartridge boxes and army ammunition crates just after the surrender had been finalized and enlisted personnel were ordered to disarm.  Accounts clearly detail this practice at Appomattox post-surrender, and even mention soldiers being instructed to use a ball puller – such as the one included with this group – to unload weapons without firing and violating the new ceasefire.

This grouping is a unique snapshot of a moment just after the Virginia theater of the war ended. In a war where untold millions of bullets were fired, these stand in stark contrast as relics of peace.   [cm] [ph:L]

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