Artillery Shell Fragment / SOLD

Description

Artillery Shell Fragment 

Great portion of a fired Union Hotchkiss round with rifling on sabot

The Battle of Kelly’s Ford, also known as the Battle of Kellysville or Kelleysville, took place on March 17, 1863, in Culpeper County, Virginia, as part of the cavalry operations along the Rappahannock River during the American Civil War. It set the stage for Brandy Station and other cavalry actions of the Gettysburg campaign that summer. Twenty-one hundred troopers of Brig. Gen. William W. Averell’s Union cavalry division crossed the Rappahannock to attack the Confederate cavalry that had been harassing them that winter. Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee  counterattacked with a brigade of about 800 men. After achieving a localized success, Union forces withdrew under pressure in late afternoon, without destroying Lee’s cavalry. 

Inventory Number: ART 496