Original U.S. Civil War Federal Cartridge Box Plate Lot Ground Dug At The Location of the Battle of the Wilderness - 2 Items Antique Wheellock Firearms ruined buildings

ruined buildings

repainted and repurposed as a training aid

The entire contents were put into storage and were sold

all offered the British fighting soldier of his day as fine a weapon as issued to any contemporary army in the world

with slivers and chunks looking to have been chipped off over the years

Original U.S. Civil War Federal Cartridge Box Plate Lot Ground Dug At The Location of the Battle of the Wilderness - 2 Items Antique Wheellock Firearms ruined buildingsOriginal Items: Only One Lot of 2 Available. This is a lovely pair of box plates which was ground dug at the Battle of the Wilderness location in 1962. The Battle of the Wilderness was fought on May 57, 1864, during the American Civil War. It was the first battle of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. The fighting occurred in a wooded area