Confederate Shipwreck Percussion Cap

Confederate Shipwreck Percussion Cap

• Authentic Confederate Shipwreck Artifact
• Percussion Cap
• Notes: British made percussion caps used by Confederate forces to fire rifles and pistols.
• HMS Shannon enforcing International Law between the Union gunboat Tuscarora and the Confederate blockade-runner Thomas L. Wragg in Southampton Water, 1862

Salvaged from the wreck of the CSS Nashville Confederate Navy Warship, Blockade Runner & Privateer destroyed by enemy fire. 28 February 1863 near the Georgia coast.

CSS Nashville was a brig-rigged, side-paddle-wheel passenger steamer that served with the Confederate Navy during the Civil War.