Posted on 01/03/2017 12:27:14 PM PST by w1n1
My great-etc grand uncle took a couple bullets at Spotsylvania as well.
The British Brown Bess, a generic term, was .69 caliber at the time, whereas the colonialists typically used a .63 caliber.
Ergo, the analysis of the battlefield remains turned up piles of shot from rotted bags left by fallen, and weighing the rounds gave a pretty good picture of the layout of the sides.
The British Brown Bess musket was 75 caliber. The Charlesville pattern musket, used by the Colonials and their French allies, was 69 caliber. After the war, the United States Army adopted the Charlesville patter musket in 69 caliber as the standard for U.S. manufactured military shoulder arms.
Wow. A response to a 2 year old post.
Yeah the British used the Brown Bess. The Americans used Brown Bess that were left over from before the war and the French Charleville. The Bess was close to 12 gauge. Charleville a little smaller.
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