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Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
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Wm T. Marks, recently from the Army of the Potomac, showed a rebel-invented exploding bullet: a conical ball with a chamber containing a percussion cap and powder, triggered by a needle upon impact with hard substances like bone. Similar musket balls were recently discovered locally.
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a quantity of similar musket balls discovered in this place recently.
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Wm T. Marks showed a bullet invented by the rebels: a conical ball screwed onto a chamber with a percussion cap and powder at the bottom; a slender needle runs through the ball with a flat head outside, working loose to explode the cap upon striking hard substances like bone.