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Two bullets, one Federal, the other Confederate

Two hostile bullets in mid-air
Together shocked
And swift were locked
Forever in a firm embrace
–Lathrop

This is a picture of which Captain Gordon McCabe of Richmond, Virginia, writes:

I send photographs of two bullets, one Federal, the other Confederate, that met in mid-air and flattened out against each other. The bullets were picked up in 1865 between the ‘lines’ immediately after the evacuation of Petersburg.

Review of Reviews. New York. 1912.

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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence.
Francis Trevelyan Miller, Ed.

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Francis Trevelyan Miller, Ed.