Item: A0002
Price: $2495
Provenance: CS
Type: Broun
Size: 7 Inch
Sabot: Copper Ring
Fuse: N/A (Solid Bolt)
Book: Jack Bell Page 201
Location Recovered: Alabama River, Alabama
Description:
Another rare projectile -- Rarity
10 in Jack Bell's heavy artillery book (page 201). The book also mentioned
this 7" Broun bolt is only found in Mobile Bay, but this one comes from further
inland up the Alabama River from a shore battery location nearer Selma (not a
river dumping recovery). Somehwere I have pictures of it fresh out of the
ground like a genetically engineered turnip. I'll try and find them and
also provide more details to the buyer.
This is an impressive piece
designed to smash through ironclads or the troop carrying tinclads that would
threaten the heart of the massive war industry works at Selma.
A few years ago I went down to
Selma to retrieve a group of projectiles that a private owner had displayed in
the museum for years. As in so many other cases we have seen particularly
in the past few decades, the museum was moving out its Civil War displays in
favor of something more currently in vogue. This piece was not in there,
but similar ones were including another one listed on this site currently.
It is astounding to me that the museum would do this, but somebody out there
will appreciate and preserve this history as a not so subtle reminder of what
Selma produced during the Civil War.
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