a recent find from the S.Carolina lowcountry

[PEles]

I found this rare North Carolina button detecting a previously well hunted Union campsite in Beaufort, South Carolina.It must have been a union soldiers souvenier he probably cut from a dead NC officer's coat. The union troops in the camp I was hunting in Beaufort were relocated to South Carolina after the large battle and the unions victory around Fort Fisher in NC. The button is one of rarer North Carolina buttons and was worn by a high ranking NC officer, and is seldom seen dug, even In Virginia.After I found it and showed it around a longtime relic hunter of 40 yrs in Virginia contacted me and told me just how rare it was. He said he'd hunted in large North Carolina camps in Fredericksburg Va back in the 60's and 70's before they got built over. He and his buddies dug hundreds of NC buttons but he never found one like this. In fact he'd only seen maybe two in all the yrs of digging around those large camps in Virginia and he said I was a lucky relic hunter to find one. I saw a nondug one like this listed on a dealers website for 2250.00 . So yeah I think it's a good one . Hope you enjoy the pics!

LP

 

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[N.J.THer]

Wow...that is in great shape. Congrats. You would have to drag me from that site.

NJ

 

[Mrs Bloom]

Fabulous find. Congrats!!!

 

[Bunker]

Awesome find!!!!
Bunker

 

[Woodland Detectors]

You gotta love Beaufort!

I dig many awesome relics from my sites there. I love the Low Country

 

[sscindercoop]

Amazing condition, Congrats

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

Nice , but it's a highly unlikely theory that a soldier in combat " blue or gray " would loot the dead for souvenir buttons dawg

 

[DMN]

Your soil is pretty forgiving. That is a pretty button.

 

[TerryEastTexas]

That's a real beauty. Congrats.

 

[{Sentinel}]

That's as good as it gets with a backmark that's as good as it gets. That button speaks for itself.

 

[rebelrouser]

great button pete.hope you make great find this next weekend.

 

[sekypaleo]

Nice , but it's a highly unlikely theory that a soldier in combat " blue or gray " would loot the dead for souvenir buttons dawg

Actually it was quite common practice .for that to be done. Numerous Yankees brought home souveneers from the battles...it is well documented. I dug a CS officers button in a Union campsite that was used after a small battle. Years later I found a diary from a Union soldier in that regiment who wrote how his friend brought a captured CS Lt. into camp and they relieved him of the buttons from his jacket. It is the button in my avatar.

 

[sekypaleo]

I am really surprised I haven't seen yet a vote for banner...come on peeps...this is one RARE button....a relic hunter like myself's DREAM.
AWesome find as always from you.
BANNER...BANNER..BANNER

I am green with envy

 

[romeo-1]

Man oh man, what I wouldn't give for sandy soil like that! Great find, gotta be on the banner!

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

Nice , but it's a highly unlikely theory that a soldier in combat " blue or gray " would loot the dead for souvenir buttons dawg

Actually it was quite common practice .for that to be done. Numerous Yankees brought home souveneers from the battles...it is well documented. I dug a CS officers button in a Union campsite that was used after a small battle. Years later I found a diary from a Union soldier in that regiment who wrote how his friend brought a captured CS Lt. into camp and they relieved him of the buttons from his jacket. It is the button in my avatar.

no intent to distract from what a Great Find this is , but sekypaleo like you state , captured, " still alive " and relieved of the souvenir . : Back to your find , it is Awesome

 

[cntrydncr1]

sweet button! congrats

 

[kylemcpizza]

Awesome Find-I'm in Bluffton so hope to find something like that soon!

 

[SC Keith]

A button like that would make my year! Its banner material for sure and the condition is outstanding! WTG Pete!

 

[pamlicopanther]

That is one nice button. Great find!!!!!!!!

 

[CrazySlasher]

Your stuff always looks so nice. I wish the soil up here was that nice. Good find