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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bosko69, post: 12449147, member: 16283&quot;]Trees that were (presumably) there on the 3 days of the battle are called &#039;Witness Trees&#039;.</p><p>Naturally a real jackpot would be a section of &#039;Witness Tree&#039; with an original cannonball still wedged in it- these do exist from various battles.</p><p>There are even a few cases of original belt plates found with a period minie&#039; ball embedded in them- very rare are the few authenticated examples of two bullets fused together from colliding in the midst of a battle ! </p><p><i>&#039;During the three-day Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, an estimated 7 million bullets and over 50,000 artillery projectiles (totaling roughly 569 tons of ammunition) were fired.&#039;</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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