The projectile shown here was recovered from Milledgeville, Georgia. The
Official Records, Series I, Volume XLIV, report number 90 of Colonel William
Hawley, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry, states that on or around November 22, 1864, Hawley's
troops threw 170 boxes of fixed artillery ammunition into the Oconee River Milledgeville,
Georgia, (the capital of Georgia during the war), also destroying the weapons of warfare
that the Confederates had stored in Milledgeville. Since similar specimens of all patterns
on this page have been recovered from the Selma Arsenal site in Alabama, it reasonable to
assume that these projectiles were also manufactured there. This rare unfired Read
projectile has a high copper sabot with one flame groove cut into it.
