METAL DETECTOR FINDS AMMO FROM CIVIL WAR

The American Civil War (1861--1865), amongst other names also known as the War Between the States, was a civil war in the
United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the

Confederate States of America, also known as "the Confederacy". Led by Jefferson Davis, they fought against the United States

(the Union), which was supported by all the free states (where slavery was abolished) and by half the border slave states.

In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against the expansion of

slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. In response to the Republican victory and the long-term threat it

posed to slavery, seven states declared their secession from the Union before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861. Both the

outgoing administration of President James Buchanan and Lincoln's incoming administration rejected the legality of secession,

considering it rebellion. The border states remained neutral at this point.

Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a US military installation at Fort Sumter in South

Carolina. Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state to recapture federal property. This led to

declarations of secession by four more slave states and the war had begun. Both sides raised armies as the Union assumed

control of the border states early in the war and established a naval blockade. In September 1862, Lincoln's Emancipation

Proclamation made ending slavery in the South a war goal, and dissuaded the British from intervening.

Confederate commander Robert E. Lee won battles in the east, but in 1863 his northward advance was turned back with heavy

casualties after the Battle of Gettysburg. To the west, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River after their capture

of Vicksburg, Mississippi, thereby splitting the Confederacy in two. The Union was able to capitalize on its long-term

advantages in men and material by 1864 when Ulysses S. Grant fought battles of attrition against Lee, while Union general

William Tecumseh Sherman captured Atlanta, Georgia, and marched to the sea. Confederate resistance collapsed after Lee

surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars in human history. Railroads, steamships, mass-produced

weapons, and various other military devices were employed extensively. The practices of total war, developed by Sherman in

Georgia, and of trench warfare around Petersburg foreshadowed World War I in Europe. It remains the deadliest war in American

history, resulting in the deaths of 620,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties. Ten percent of all

Northern males 20--45 years of age died, as did 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18--40. Victory for the North meant

the end of the Confederacy and of slavery in the United States, and strengthened the role of the federal government. The

social, political, economic and racial issues of the war decisively shaped the reconstruction era that lasted to 1877.

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[CakesnakeFilms]

i found a few bullets like this on a beach in devon

[OscarSleeping]

my mummy has got longer ones of them.. but hers is purple :(

[butaangas]

I got one too. Perhaps I melted it

[731288]

nice see part of history,thx.