Original U.S. Civil War Federal 1861 Cartridge Box Plate with Period Provenance Tag - Found on Battlefield of Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana While Siege was Ongoing Stocks as part of the War

as part of the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom

as well as serial number 2228

This supple leather holster is maker marked gxy and dated 1942

Assigned as part of the invasion force was the 504th Regimental Combat Team (RCT)

no less than five 58th Bomb Wing B-29s crashed near Karachi all from overheated engines

Original U.S. Civil War Federal 1861 Cartridge Box Plate with Period Provenance Tag - Found on Battlefield of Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana While Siege was Ongoing Stocks as part of the WarOriginal Item. One of a Kind. The siege of Port Hudson (May 22 July 9, 1863) was the final engagement in the Union campaign to recapture the Mississippi River in the American Civil War. While Union General Ulysses Grant was besieging Vicksburg upriver, General Nathaniel Banks was ordered to capture the lower Mississippi Confederate stronghold of Port Hudson, Louisiana, to go to Grant's aid. When his assault failed, Banks settled into a 48 day siege,