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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

Very cool

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.

Maybe some guys were doing target practice.

Was the tower used during the battle so the soldiers could shoot down from it?

Erik always has interesting stories.

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

You guys are awesome!!

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

Very cool!

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

Thanks J D !

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.

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I will sell my soul to work for you guys.

Thank you !!!

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

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

So interesting and it never gets old hearing about it.

Without a doubt. Also East Calvary field

Favorite place to visit

Erik is awesome

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!

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.

Oh of course .. there's Erik 🙄

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

Thank you so much for this.

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.

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!

Thank you for another really good video.

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I absolutely love your videos

so y'all can hide stuff that we'd appreciate findin

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

Of course, we're going to respect our battlefields, but let's not use the term " highly illegal ".lol

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

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.

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

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!!!

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.

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

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.

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.