Were standard paper cartridges with lead bullets the only ones used in .58 caliber muskets?
I am not a cartridge collector, but a perusal of any ordnance books, reveals a myriad of different types of cartridges. Most of them were experimental of of limited issue. The most common of the different cartridges were the Williamson bullet, used to clean out and the exploding bullet. Both of these were wrapped in paper in the same pattern as the standard cartridge. Some New Jersey troops were issued combustible paper cartridges at the battle of Ganies’ Mill. Supposedly these were the same type as issued to the “Coffee Mill” machine guns used at the same battle.
