Genuine Civil War artifact lot Mule horse shoes battlefield shells Musket Ball b

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FRAMED Lot of 11 authentic Civil War relics featuring 2 forged mule shoes and several bullet shells, including a Sharps Carbine Bullet. Frame is 9 x 9 inches and is from an estate in Macon, Georgia. During the American Civil War, Macon served as the official arsenal of the Confederacy manufacturing percussion caps, friction primers, and pressed bullets. Camp Oglethorpe, in Macon, was used first as a prison for captured Union officers and enlisted men. Later it held officers only, up to 2,300 at one time. The camp was evacuated in 1864. Macon City Hall, which served as the temporary state capitol in 1864, was converted to a hospital for wounded Confederate soldiers. The Union General William Tecumseh Sherman spared Macon on his march to the sea. His troops had sacked the nearby state capital of Milledgeville, and Maconites prepared for an attack. Sherman, however, passed by without entering Macon. The Macon Telegraph wrote that, of the 23 companies which the city had furnished the Confederacy, only enough men survived and were fit for duty to fill five companies by the end of the war. The human toll was very high. The city was taken by Union forces during Wilson's Raid on April 20, 1865. (Wikipedia)
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