Buckshot load during the CW

Haversack62

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I like to make some paper cart. of buckshot. Was wondering how many lead buckshot's to one paper tube and grain of black powder. Also did both sides use this type of ammo in 58cal. rifle muskets. I know it was used in 69cal. smoothbore musket. Also any photos of what the buckshot paper cart. would look like.

Thank you
 
My Great-Great (?) Uncle, Captain Dickinson Sanders of the 2nd Georgia Cavalry left a short memoir of sorts of his recollections and noted that in 1862 Terry's Texas Rangers were armed with Colt Revolvers and double barrel shotguns. Presumably, they used buckshot in their shotguns.

The more or less standard American issue cartridge for smoothbore muskets since the Revolutionary War had been the "Buck & Ball" cartridge which consisted of a 110 Grains of Musket Powder (FFg?), a .64 Caliber round ball and several buckshot.
 
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