Confederate Gardner Bullet

Confederate Gardner Bullet

Richmond, VA

Civil War 1861 - 1865

This Confederate Gardner Bullet comes from the Capital of the Confederacy.

- The American Civil War 

The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought between the Union and the Confederacy. The central cause of the war was the status of slavery, especially the expansion of slavery into territories acquired as a result of the Louisiana Purchase and the Mexican–American War. On the eve of the Civil War in 1860, four million of the 32 million Americans were enslaved black people, almost all in the South.