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Title: A Refutation of the Charges Made against the Confederate States of America of Having Authorized the Use of Explosive and Poisoned Musket and Rifle Balls during the Late Civil War of 1861-65

Author: Horace Edwin Hayden

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Language: English

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A

REFUTATION OF THE CHARGES

MADE AGAINST

THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA

OF HAVING AUTHORIZED THE USE OF

EXPLOSIVE AND POISONED MUSKET AND RIFLE BALLS
DURING THE LATE CIVIL WAR OF 1861-65.

BY

REV. HORACE EDWIN HAYDEN,

Member of the Southern Historical Society and the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania; Corresponding Member of the New England Historical
and Genealogical Society, the Historical Society of Virginia,
&c., &c., &c.

_Richmond, Va.:
Geo. W. Gary, Printer and Binder._
1879.

EXPLOSIVE AND POISONED MUSKET AND RIFLE BALLS.

The following remarkable statement occurs as a note to the account of
the battle of Gettysburg, on page 78, volume III, of "The Pictorial
History of the Civil War in the United States of America, by Benson J.
Lossing, LL. D.":

Many, mostly young men, were maimed in every conceivable way, by
every kind of weapon and missile, the most fiendish of which was an
explosive and a poisoned bullet, represented in the engraving