UNUSUAL ITEM FOUND BY ME ON THE RETREAT ROUTE FROM FT ANDERSON NC (ANDERSON WAS ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE RIVER FROM FT FISHER ) ADMIRAL MATTHEW PERRY FORCED AND END TO THE ISOLATION POLICY OF JAPAN IN 1853 AND 1854 SETTING UP A COALING STATION FOR US SHIPS JAPAN HAD BEEN CLOSED TO VISITORS FROM 1630s TO 1853 THIS SWORD WAS FOUND BY ME IN 1973 I MET AN OLD MAN WHO TOLD ME THAT IN 1941 HE WORKED WITH A CREW WIDENING THE ROAD IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE AND THAT THE BULLDOZER PUSHED UP 3 SWORDS ONE WITH A GOLD PLATED HILT THE DOZER OPERATOR KEPT THEM I WENT BACK AND HUNTED ALONG THE ROAD AAND FOUND THIS SAMAURI SWORD IN A DIRT PILE OFF THE ROAD THERE WERE ALSO POCKETS OF ENFIELD BULLETS 3 HERE 8 HERE 19 THERE I BELIEVE THIS WAS THESURRENDER SITE TALKED ABOUT IN THE ORs I THINK THAT A US NAVY MAN WAS WITH PERRY IN 1853 AND PICKED UP THIS SWORD WHILE IN JAPAN THEN HE JOINED THE CONFEDERATE ARMY WHEN THE WAR STARTED AND BROUGHT HIS SWORD WITH HIM THE SCABBARD PARTS ARE GOLD AND SILVER QUITE FANCY THE BLADE HOLDER IS SILVER AND ETCHED TO LOOK LIKE RAIN THE TSUBA APPEARS TO BE COPPER AND HAS GOLD FLOWERS AND STEMS ON BOTH SIDES THE POMMEL CAP AND BLADE COLLAR HAS APPLIED GOLD FLOWERS I HAD THIS PIECE LOOKED AT IN THE 1970S AND WAS TOLD THAT IT WAS MADE AROM 1400 TO 1500 THE BLADE IS BENT AND RUSTED THIS MAY BE THE ONLY CONFEDERATE SAMAURI SWORD USED IN THE WAR I LIKE IT AS A CIVIL WAR RELIC BEST
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