Dropped .58 caliber US Minie ball. Recovered from the Klingel Farm by local resident and relic hunter John Cullison, who excavated the battlefield from 1935 to 1959, and sold this item to the Rosensteel Family collection of Gettysburg.

The Klingel Farm is a small, fifteen acre farm located south of town along the east side of the Emmitsburg Road. Owned during the battle by Daniel and Hannah Klingel. Fierce fighting took place around the farm on July 2nd, 1863, the area where CS General Barksdale made his famous charge.

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