Tiny personal lock and key, recovered at Fort Harrison, VA

This is a first for me, I never seen a lock of this size that still had the key in it. It measures 1 ¾” x 1 ¼”. I left it just as it was dug and didn’t try to remove the key. It was recovered at Fort Harrison, Virginia.

On September 29, 1864, 2,500 Union forces over ran and captured Fort Harrison. It was the strongest Confederate Fort on the Richmond-Petersburg line. The next day Lee personally organized a major effort to retake the fort but failed.

Fort Harrison consisted of a semi-circle of earthen works facing the Union lines. When the Union forces took it over, they built earthen works facing the opposite direction, thus completing a circle. The Union renamed Fort Harrison to Fort Burnham, after the Union General killed in the September 29th attack.

This is truly a unique piece and comes in acrylic display case.