This is an original excavated .69 caliber three-ring bullet from the American Civil War, manufactured for use in rifled .69 caliber muskets. These large-caliber projectiles were typically issued in the early stages of the war when smoothbore muskets were being retrofitted with rifled barrels to improve accuracy. Soldiers on both sides—Union and Confederate—initially made use of these heavy bullets, though they gradually fell out of favor in the Union ranks as .58 caliber arms and ammunition became standardized. By the mid-war period, .69 caliber bullets were more commonly associated with Confederate forces, who often relied on older or captured equipment due to supply shortages and logistical constraints. Each bullet offered here was excavated from Civil War-era campsites or battlefields in the southern states, bearing the distinctive patina and wear of decades underground. The price is for one individual bullet, similar to the example pictured—a tangible relic of the brutal close-range firefights that defined the war’s early years.

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