Thanks, emike for letting me know about the new forum. Been hoping to see it back.
I had the T&T136 posted on Ebay. Glad it didn't sell. I've had it for 25+ years. Got it from John Sexton at Stone Mountain Relics back in the early '80s. The info I got from John was that it had been found in a Louisiana camp on Skidaway Island here in Georgia. I posted it on the old Forum. But, got no new info and very little response.
I was also surprised that it didn't show up in RB-R4 as the T&T handbook was the only place I had seen one listed.
After listing it on Ebay, I received an email from the finder. Very interesting info and a great relic hunting story. He said I could pass on the information. So, maybe this will be of interest to others.
Here is a transcript of the emails I received from the finder:
"Dear .69caliber,
I recognize this bullet and felt compelled to comment since my hunting partner and I were the ones who found this camp on Skidaway Island in March of 1983. This camp was from the 4th Louisiana Battalion who were there from December 1861 to about March of 1862. We uncovered a fair number of these bullets and lesser amounts of some different looking 3-ringers. We also found a large number of Madison Infantry buttons and Louisiana locals, a few frame buckles and a rectangular Louisians pelican plate among other things such as coins, etc. We had neither one seen this bullet before and the reference books available then showed nothing like it. We both had a fair number of these 2-ringers and sold off the excess to collectors. I've never seen this bullet anywhere else since that time and this is the first time I've seen it on the market. My buddy was from Decatur, GA and was a friend of John Sexton's so I know how this got to Stone Mountain Relics. Thanks for listening.
Roger S. Durham
Dear .69caliber,
Don: The fellow I hunted with was Tom Dale and he was a police officer for the city of Decatur. Sadly, he passed away some years back. I lived down on the coast in Bryan and Liberty counties over the years and Tom used to come down and we'd hunt. John Sexton joined us on occasion. I know what you mean about that bullet. I have never seen any others out there on the market until yours turned up. The 4th Louisiana was composed largely of dock workers and longshoremen from New Orleans and the surrounding vicinity and were a pretty "rough and tumble" bunch. When they initially arrived in the Savannah area they were camped close to town and apparently got into trouble and made a nuisance of themselves to the point that they were sent to Skidaway Island because it was as far away from town as they could put them. COL Edward C. Anderson comments about their reputation in his dairy. So, that's what they were doing way out there."
PS,
Glad to be back.
