I bought this battered Read bolt at the Dalton show a couple of years ago - it went from the digger to Jack Melton who flipped it to me. It is not in Pete's book, but the shell made in the same style is. This late War bolt with its crude bourrelets and chipping iron screams of the mad scramble by the Confederates to hold the Yankees at bay as they marched toward Atlanta. I suspect the chipping occurred when it was fired, and it probably landed nowhere near its target.
