Formerly Known As Selma Arsenal

[tom buckley]

I've asked this before, but got no responses. Sometimes re-wording a question gets results.
I have seen examples of the .54 three groove bullet for Mississippi Rifles, formerly known as Selma Arsenal Bullets, from Virginia, West Virginia, and Gettysburg.
Have any of these bullets, No. 266 in RBTRF Vol. 4, been found at any sites in Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi or maybe the Trans Mississippi???
Also, those that I have looked at seem to be a bit crude so could these have been "field cast"??
My belief is that these are early to mid- war bullets possibly produced, or "field cast" in Virginia.
Any information or opinions??

[Steve Phillips]

I have never thought these are Selma bullets. I've found over 1000 bullets in the river at Selma and none are like this.

[tom buckley]

Thanks, Steve.
We'll probably never know why these bullets were called "Selma Arsenal Bullets", but, as I said, I suspect that they originated in Virginia.

[tom buckley]

I finally found my copy of September Blood; The Battle of Carnifex Ferry[, and in a picture of bullets recovered there is a RBTRF Vol. 4 No. 266.
The Battle of Carnifex Ferry was Sept. 10, 1861 in the mountains of (West) Virginia, another thing that makes me believe that the bullets or molds originated in Virginia.

[tom buckley]

Don't know what I did with italics.