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A REFUTATION OF THE CHARGES MADE AGAINST THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA OF HAVING AUTHORIZED THE USE OF EXPLOSIVE AND POISONED MUSKET AND RIFLE BALLS DURING THE LATE CIVIL WAR OF 1861-65.
A REFUTATION OF THE CHARGES MADE AGAINST THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA OF HAVING AUTHORIZED THE USE OF EXPLOSIVE AND POISONED MUSKET AND RIFLE BALLS DURING THE LATE CIVIL WAR OF 1861-65.
Richmond, Va.: Geo. W. Gary, Printer and Binder. 1879....
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EXPLOSIVE AND POISONED MUSKET AND RIFLE BALLS.
EXPLOSIVE AND POISONED MUSKET AND RIFLE BALLS.
The following remarkable statement occurs as a note to the account of the battle of Gettysburg, on page 78, volume III, of "The Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America, by Benson J. Lossing, LL. D.": Many, mostly young men, were maimed in every conceivable way, by every kind of weapon and missile, the most fiendish of which was an explosive and a poisoned bullet, represented in the engraving a little more than half the size of the originals, procured from the battlefie
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