My Therory on the 58 Cal ball shots found in a Union Encampm
Hi My Amigo Wayne and all my TH'ing Friends
Here is my theory on why we have found 58 Cal Ball Shots in our presumed only Union encampment site. First, I apologize to everyone as I won't give up the location of our site. We refer to our site as 'the site that keeps on giving'.
Please allow me to set the stage for everyone: the Union troops were on the North side of the road, my belief is that they were scouting the area for CS troops. The Union troops encounter a smaller group of CS troops with a small wagon train of supplies. The CS troops had four canons and the Union had four to match. Union canon destroyed one canon and caisson, decapitated four CS cannonades. The Union troops out numbered the CS troops by a two to one ratio. The CS troops were all South of the road and were firing to the North into the Union lines, while at the same time moving South in an attempt to avoid being destroyed by the Union fire power. Almost every bullet dug on the South side of the road have been fired. To date the list of fired bullets found to the South of the road includes two 69 Cal Musketoons, three 54 Cal Sharps, four 44 Cal pistol bullets, and one 44 cal ball shot. Now the list of drops found to the South of the road have all been found to the Eastern part of the search area includes eight 58 cal ball shot, five 54 cal Sharps, four 44 cal pistol bullets. To the North side of the road the list of bullets is more confusing as the Union were encamped in the site on multiple occasions thus the reason for so many different bullets have been found to date. I will start with the easier finds; one 58 Cal three ringer, one 52 Sharps complete with shell casing intact, two 54 Sharps Chewed bullets, many 54 Cal Sharps, many 44 Cal pistol bullets. This gets easier when you look at the fired bullets that have been found in the North side of the road are almost all CS bullets (assuming that the CS troops were the only ones to fire into the Union Encampment) five 58 cal ball shots, and the only Union bullet that I have recovered on the North side of the road is a 44 cal pistol bullet. I don't know what the fired Union bullet means in the overall story but I think the possibilities are that a Union trooper fired at a CS troop that was attempting to escape and it just so happened that in the confusion of battle the bullet was fired to the North as the Union troops had started chasing the CS troops out of the battlefield area. It is just possible that the Union trooper got further to the South and got behind the CS lines, saw a target and fired. I wish I could provide a line drawing as I think it would help explain how things went down. now mush of what I have said is speculation, my Theory alone. This is my view on what happened, where everyone was during and after the battle. I could be right and I could be wrong, only time will tell for sure.
I trust that I have not totally confused everyone with this message.
Have fun in all you do, be safe, and do right at all times.
Dave Mork
'Digger-Dave'
PS: Remember; Don't leave it in the ground!
