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Civil War Minie Bullet Memorabilia UACC PADA

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1" fired bullet. You can tell the bullet has been fired because of how the shape of the bullet is warped. The Mini‚ bullet is a type of muzzle-loading rifle bullet named after co-developer, Claude-�tienne Mini‚. It came to prominence in the American Civil War. Found February 15, 1972 in Confederate Fort Huger near Suffolk, Virginia. The fort was built by some 1000 slaves and free blacks in 1861. It took ten months to build and was captured 10 months later. Fort Huger was named after Thomas B. Huger, CSN who had served in the US Navy for 20 years before the war.

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