These two Hotchkiss artillery fragments were dug around the Knoxville TN area. If you enlarge the picture you can see the name and patent date on it. It reads, Hotchkiss Patent Oct 9, 1855. Fragments like these are getting harder and harder to find. The Hotchkiss round was used by both North and the South during the war.
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