APPOMATTOX RELIC COLLECTION

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Item Code: 173-4294

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 18 pulled .58 caliber bullets, 2 pulled Williams Cleaner 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.

These bullets were pulled/extracted using a ball puller/worm from loaded weapons just after the surrender had been finalized and enlisted personnel were ordered to disarm.  Accounts clearly detail this practice at Appomattox post-surrender with soldiers instructed to use a ball puller – such as the one included with this group – to unload weapons without firing and subsequently 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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