FiremarshalBill
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- Joined
- Feb 4, 2016
What was the very first Civil War relic you ever found yourself? Mine was a .577 Enfield bullet I picked up in the Tennessee River, literally only a couple inches from the waters edge "near" (I won't say "in") the National Park at Shiloh, TN in 1967. That little piece of lead somehow made it real and gave me a whole new perspective on a war that, up until that moment, I hadn't really though much about. Moreover, it began my long love affair with searching for those tiny threads of relic history that are still weaving a fascinating tapestry of life 150 years ago.