Posted on 12/29/2021 12:35:57 AM PST by blueplum
(CNN)A second time capsule recently found buried beneath the pedestal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia, was opened Tuesday.
Items inside included an 1865 edition of Harper's Weekly magazine with an clear image of a figure weeping over Abraham Lincoln's grave; a Bible with a coin stuck to it; and a Richmond directory. Also found were more newspapers, books, coins, and letters. A minié ball, a type of bullet commonly used in the American Civil War, was also discovered. Conservators from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR) carefully opened the box and worked with caution. Water was found inside the box and its items ...
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Exciting finds but id rather have the statue ...One of our greatest generals ...
When Jesus returns....
Video the dunes who never believed, ...
I want to see them now.
They are messing with artificial intelligence.
They have no fear of God.. As if He does not exist and they can do whatever.
The tower of Babal.. They were going to build it to heaven. God cane down and said NO.
Don’t overstep your bounds.. Don’t think you can do anything..
Don’t messing with creation.
They are not worthy of tying General Lee’s shoelaces!
Ghouls!....all of them!
The American taliban have struck in Richmond.
Yep!
It’s disgusting seeing pictures of these ghouls even touching these artifacts.
The people that put these time capsules never intended that people who spit on their graves would raid their corpses.
Grave robbers.
So the same types that want to remove statues of our history is excited to see the time capsule?
Is that just me or does it smell of hypocrite a little? Perhaps cherry picking?
It smells ghoulish and rancid.
They don’t care one flip about heritage.....
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My daughter lives in Richmond.
Turned the stone and looked beneath it. When will they ever learn?
When I was a kid, I used to find unfired minié balls (no rifling) on the surface in overgrown entrenchments on a bluff overlooking Shirley Highway in Virginia. My grandfather was a teenager during the Civil War. It really wasn’t that long ago. But yes, I’m an old man.
An old man I used to know would say, "When we were kids, we'd go to Pappy's farm in Virginia and pick up 'minny balls'."
Photos of minié balls from Wikipedia's minié ball page:
Various types of Minié balls. The four on the right are provided with Tamisier ball grooves for aerodynamic stability.
James H. Burton's 1855 Minié ball design (.58 caliber, 500 grains) from the Harpers Ferry Armory
See post 13!
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