Pocket watch with chain and shell. "M.T. Tobia Liverpool Patton Levne full Jeweled" engraved on the inside. Manufacture number 406189. Image of soldiers engraved on the back. Owner's name was Minos Seborn Vise.
Burton artillery shell with an intact base. The fuse has been drilled and the charge was removed. The shell was recovered from the site of the Battle of Stones River.
Pvt. Joe Paxton Lyle, Co. D, 63rd Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, wore this Confederate shell jacket. The buttons indicate artillery, though Lyle did not serve in artillery. The jacket is Richmond Depot issue. Lyle fought at the Battle of the Crater, was...
Artillery shell fragments from spherical case shot. The shells had hollow balls with fuses so they would explode over target. The fragments were most likely from a 12-lb. Napoleon.
Federal columbiad guns mounted on tinclads probably fired this 7-inch Dyer shell at Confederate fortifications on Island No. 10. The island surrendered to Gen. John Pope on April 8, 1862. The shell is on permanent exhibit at the Carnegie Center in...
