A WEIRD 4 Bullet Clump Found in Gettysburg on Culp's Hill!!!

A WEIRD 4 Bullet Clump Found in Gettysburg on Culp's Hill!!! | American Artifact Episode 150

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@TheHistoryUnderground Ай бұрын

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@analystanalyst7652 Ай бұрын

Thanks for this piece. Back in the 1960’s you could buy battlefield relics at a gas station, in Gettysburg, that had a show case showing them off. In July of 1963, when I was 9, my parents allowed me to buy several of these for the 100th anniversary. I have a base cup from a 3-inch Hotchkiss shell in such good condition ( it was so freshly dug that I had to clean the dirt out of the cup) that you can easily see the heat circle on its end. I have a lead fuse and a cannon ball fragment and several minie balls and some other items. They were all found that summer in a field near the gas station and, unfortunately, I forget its location. They are safely stored away in a PF Flyer sneaker box only brought out to the curious and still in the condition that I acquired them. I visited Gettysburg several times as a pre-teen and stood on Pickett’s hill each time, looking up at Cemetery Ridge and feeling humbled, and thoughtful of where I was standing. My family fought on both sides during the war and they all, together, North and South, hardened the steel of America. As grade schoolers we all learned about the Gettysburg Address and memorized it to the point where even today I can recite most of it. I guess they don’t do that in grade school anymore. There is just so much to see in Gettysburg from the Peach Orchard to Little Round Top. Thank you again.

@chuckjenkins4348 Ай бұрын

I just love to watch your channel but just don’t have enough time in the day to watch every channel I want to being a metal detectoz! You have an amazing channel filled with intense historical subject!!!

@TheHistoryUnderground Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@modeyman101 Ай бұрын

I spent 5 days is Gettysburg and Culps hills was my favorite spot. It really connects you to the people and fighting. Going under that large rock and looking up the hill really takes you back.

@TheHistoryUnderground Ай бұрын

Pretty wild to go on the Confederate side and look up.

@MrBradleyDavid Ай бұрын

I was fascinated as a boy with seeing the tree impacts on display when we visited 50 years ago (yeah, I need to get back). Viewing it now I have to wonder what was going through the soldiers minds when they were loading their muzzle loaders. The adrenaline that was pumping through them, it must have been quite an experience for them to live or die.

@amygreene259 Ай бұрын

George Sears Greene is my ancestorial cousin! Ty for covering him

@tiffanywitmer6360 Ай бұрын

Had to admit, while visiting Gettysburg this past weekend we ran out of time to go to Culps Hill. I've been waiting years to go back to Little Round Top, so that was high on my list. I wanted to take my husband to the WW2 American Experience Museum. Love it. Everyone was supper friendly, especially the owner's Czech Shepherd. She came right over to me like an old friend. Made up homesick for our shepherd.

@5graney5 Ай бұрын

Yep. Definitely overlooked. Definitely a part of Gettysburg worth seeing!

@stephenhenion8304 Ай бұрын

My Gettysburg Mini Ball dates to the early 1960s, when my Grandparents were touring the Battlefield. Not sure its exact origin, but its from Gettysburg! Im now 68, and its a real Treasure. Love this Channel.

@TheHistoryUnderground Ай бұрын

@@stephenhenion8304 thanks!

@elizabethmckenna5397 Ай бұрын

I’ve been to Gettysburg many times. One of my favorite places to visit. My first visit I purchased a box of lead bullets. I have them still displayed to this day. I hope to get back there at some point. I just love your channel!

@NDB469 Ай бұрын

Culp’s Hill needs its own movie! As could be the case with any major battle, but I feel like given that Gettysburg didn’t really cover it, (staying true to the storyline found in The Killer Angels of course) I’d say a movie with some insight to Culp’s Hill would be very interesting.

@geoffcapp7257 Ай бұрын

Erik always has interesting stories.

@BobBrunetti Ай бұрын

I really enjoy your videos! So much unknown history you bring to life! Please keep it up!

@TheHistoryUnderground Ай бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

@EBthere Ай бұрын

So interesting and it never gets old hearing about it.

@GhostofSicklesleg Ай бұрын

1st and loving all recent content! Civil War is my favorite subject and Gettysburg is my Mecca! The WW1 drop was a 10 out of a 10

@GhostofSicklesleg Ай бұрын

Also Culps Hill was my main focus last time I was there in October. Love going in fall, you can see the fall colors and a better view of the fields of fire. I walked the Confederate attack route. And damm Little Round Top newly redone and it was a great job!

@TheHistoryUnderground Ай бұрын

@@GhostofSicklesleg - Thanks!

@HannahGorecki Ай бұрын

love this! and I absolutely love the intro too!!!

@TheHistoryUnderground Ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!

@JaneMcKee-l4b Ай бұрын

I’ve been to Gettysburg many times- never heard of Culps Hill. That is my next destination! Thank you

@DonAbrams-hq7ln Ай бұрын

How did you miss it that many times? More action there than on 7/3. I get it you went to the Cyclorama and got "stuck" there.

@JaneMcKee-l4b Ай бұрын

@ I don’t think my comment warranted this comment. Gettysburg, as you know, is huge and a lot to take in when you only have a few hours each trip to do so. I’m so glad you’ve been able to experience the entirety of the battlefield.

@Jerry-fn5nx Ай бұрын

Love the wood relic. Super crazy about the lead all clustered together in one spot. I can imagine with all that lead flying around, lots of trees where hit in the same spot multiple times

@wesaynottoday7629 Ай бұрын

Great content...love your work... don't stop

@TheHistoryUnderground Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@davidallison2112 Ай бұрын

I have a similar clump but it's only two bullets, from a battlefield in Atlanta. These relics tell a great story.

@bobcalderon2534 Ай бұрын

Thanks again, happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. 😊

@TheHistoryUnderground Ай бұрын

Same to you!

@conroytim50 Ай бұрын

Greene was the engineer who designed most of the NYC infrastructure.

@jetsons101 Ай бұрын

Erik, thanks for sharing your personal history with the Gettysburg Battlefield.... Just thinking here; is there a problem with lead contamination in the soil from all the bullets from the battle ???? Thanks to JD for helping to keep history alive and kicking.

@TheHistoryUnderground Ай бұрын

Thanks! If there's even been a lead issue, I'm not aware of it.

@jetsons101 Ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryUnderground I was just thinking the lead leaching with all the rain back there. I was kinda thinking aloud but my thought went from my mind to my fingers into the keyboard by accident.... lol

@wayneantoniazzi2706 Ай бұрын

Considering all that healthy foliage in the area I doubt lead contamination is any kind of an issue at all.

@Wedge-r9o Ай бұрын

@@jetsons101

@melvinryan2003 Ай бұрын

I absolutely love your videos

@wayneantoniazzi2706 Ай бұрын

The bullets and trees observations remind me of a conversation I had with a park ranger at the Gaines Mill battlefield just outside of Richmond almost 30 years ago. He told me that occasionally they'd have to cut down an old dead tree but had to be careful doing so, there was always the possibility the chainsaw blade would hit some embedded lead or iron in the tree trunk and break as a result! It didn't happen often but the possibility was always there. And it DID happen often enough!

@GuyPipili Ай бұрын

That's crazy that four bullets hit the same spot in a tree and ended up fusing together into a clump! Interesting things did happen on that battle field.

@TheHistoryUnderground Ай бұрын

Pretty interesting.

@timroot4207 Ай бұрын

Thank you !!!

@Phil197 Ай бұрын

Thanks J D !

@Wideoval73 Ай бұрын

Thank you for another really good video.

@jamesadams8848 Ай бұрын

Favorite place to visit

@Wreckdiver59 Ай бұрын

I can picture someone ducking in and out behind a tree as the bullets fly in his direction. I wonder if another one found it's mark?

@TheHistoryUnderground Ай бұрын

Definitely have to wonder. It'd be interesting to know how many rounds were fired in that sector of the battlefield.

@patsysmith540 Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this.

@jamesadams8848 Ай бұрын

Without a doubt. Also East Calvary field

@JeffreyLang-j5i Ай бұрын

You guys are awesome!!

@TheHistoryUnderground Ай бұрын

Thanks! Appreciate you watching and subscribing.

@cyndiebill6631 Ай бұрын

Thanks for going back to Gettysburg. It’s my favorite place you go to. Just wondering if people still find things that resurface do to erosion that just naturally happens. 🤔 If they do, do the have to turn it in to the Park Service?

@TheHistoryUnderground Ай бұрын

I believe that the policy is to leave it where it is and report the finding to the park.

@cyndiebill6631 Ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryUnderground Thank you. I always wondered what the policy was. 👍

@JCB-p5w Ай бұрын

A breastwork is a temporary fortification, often an earthwork thrown up to breast or shoulder height to provide protection to defenders firing over it from a standing position.

@eyemmersive 26 күн бұрын

There's a bullet-riddled tree trunk which used to be on display in the Smithonian's National Museum of American History in the same area as Phil Sheridan's horse.

@jamesadams8848 Ай бұрын

Erik is awesome

@CatBuchanan Ай бұрын

My question is whether those two artifacts were given to the museum or if they are still in private hands. It would be a SHAME if they were NOT surrendered to the museum.

@gerggerggy7757 Ай бұрын

Interestingly, Culps Hill was one of the main attractions of the battlefield in the decades after the war.

@6thmichcav262 Ай бұрын

You know all those stories about men loading without firing? One hypothesis is that someone loaded a musket four times, then actually fired it. On the other hand, there were tons of lead flying around in those woods for three days, and it is entirely possible four bullets hit the same place.

@rah2209 Ай бұрын

What do you feel/think/know was the turning point of the civil war? I kinda lean to the Battle of Gettysburg.

@TheHistoryUnderground Ай бұрын

Strong argument for Gettysburg and Vicksburg.

@NDB469 Ай бұрын

Very cool

@1psychofan Ай бұрын

Very cool!

@Trevilianband Ай бұрын

I will sell my soul to work for you guys.

@joshuagibson2520 Ай бұрын

JD, have you ever been to Dayton Ohio or Greenville?

@sereneexistence4989 Ай бұрын

I want his jacket

@71jolanc Ай бұрын

What are the chances of that being from a target practice? Not trying to be a Debbie Downer, but I've shot at trees trying to hit the same spot. Just a thought.

@TheHistoryUnderground Ай бұрын

Seems unlikely given where it was found.

@DonAbrams-hq7ln Ай бұрын

Nah, considering the rounds fired by both armies, it's considerably possible that many more bullets are still in the turf waiting to be "found".

@2pugman Ай бұрын

Years ago, I donated money to have a tower removed. Please explain. Thanks.

@TheHistoryUnderground Ай бұрын

@@2pugman - Maybe the old tower by the high water mark?

@CrossTrain Ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryUnderground - There was also another on Big Round Top that has been removed.

@DonAbrams-hq7ln Ай бұрын

That tower on Steinwehr was an eyesore.

@DonAbrams-hq7ln Ай бұрын

Another tower erected by Warren to help Buford survey the field, LOL

@DonAbrams-hq7ln Ай бұрын

JD, be kind, lm an old reenactor that was 15 at the Centennial in 63. I love what you convey that most textbooks do not. Erik rocks, met him years ago.