Original U.S. Civil War Federal 1861 Cartridge Box Plate with Period Provenance Tag - Found on Battlefield of Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana While Siege was Ongoing Stocks as part of the War

as part of the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom

with the bamboo securing peg still present

hand grenades

no less than five 58th Bomb Wing B-29s crashed near Karachi all from overheated engines

This a a very rare navigational instrument used on American bombers in WWII

Original U.S. Civil War Federal 1861 Cartridge Box Plate with Period Provenance Tag - Found on Battlefield of Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana While Siege was Ongoing Stocks as part of the WarOriginal Item. One of a Kind. The siege of Port Hudson (May 22 July 9, 1863) was the final engagement in the Union campaign to recapture the Mississippi River in the American Civil War. While Union General Ulysses Grant was besieging Vicksburg upriver, General Nathaniel Banks was ordered to capture the lower Mississippi Confederate stronghold of Port Hudson, Louisiana, to go to Grant's aid. When his assault failed, Banks settled into a 48 day siege,