News:

Want Appleseed to grow and fill our firing lines?  We need help with advertising, social media, graphics design, and administrative tasks.  An hour of time spent at this level can have a huge impact.  You can make a difference!  Send a Personal Message to Cleveland.

Main Menu

Archeology Day at Minute Man National Historical Park, October 5, 2024

Started by BluegrassColonel, October 02, 2024, 03:26:43 PM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages1
User actions

BluegrassColonel

October 02, 2024, 03:26:43 PM
This Saturday, October 5, there will be a discussion of 5 musket balls recently discovered (2023) on the east side of North Bridge.  That is the side of the bridge where the British Regulars were formed up on April 19, 1775 indicating that they were fired by the militia on the west side (Col. James Barrett, Major John Buttrick, Captain Issac Davis, et al.).

Archeology Day

Collectively, those musket balls might be considered part of the actual "Shot Heard 'Round the World" as described in Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 "Concord Hymn."

The calibers of the musket balls range as follows:
.650
.70
.568
.655
.41

The ball were largely un-deformed, so they likely were overshot, reached terminal velocity, and dropped to the ground.

More detailed information may be found on this page:
Musket Ball Discovery

My father didn't serve in WWII.  It wasn't for lack of trying.  He attempted to enlist 3 separate times.  The last time the doctor said he was too short.  He responded that he signed up again because he said he saw a poster that was recruiting short men to be pilots.  The doctor said, "Short, yes.  But this is ridiculous."  In my book, he's still a hero.
Print
Go Up Pages1
User actions