parsonwalker
Bronze Member
This past fall, I mentioned a couple of times that I was waiting for crops to be harvested so I could get into a Union campsite. (I had found some decent stuff in the woods already). I haven't posted about that site yet, so I wanted to let you know I WAS able to get onto the fields. Four trips to date. I've had a ball with this place, but I've hunted HARD for what you see here . . .
Below you'll see some rivets, a canteen spout and cap box flap button (both firsts for me) and other camp debris, including parts from a kerosene lamp. Of course, no way to say that was from the CW, but pretty cool to imagine it on the table of an officer in his tent.
Next a grape shot, two badly corroded springfield musket tools, two Indian head pennies, an 1861 half dime, and a dime that wasn't CW era (1901).
Nice group of buttons. Eagles (Coats and cuffs), New York Coat, unusual 3D flower button, flat buttons and button backs.
My Favs -Two Michigan cuffs and a Mass. Vol. Militia cuff. Firsts for me.
In all, over 50 3-ringers, a few carbines, pistol bullets and Enfields and two handfuls of camp lead - One with three percussion caps stuck in the lead.
Below you'll see some rivets, a canteen spout and cap box flap button (both firsts for me) and other camp debris, including parts from a kerosene lamp. Of course, no way to say that was from the CW, but pretty cool to imagine it on the table of an officer in his tent.
Next a grape shot, two badly corroded springfield musket tools, two Indian head pennies, an 1861 half dime, and a dime that wasn't CW era (1901).
Nice group of buttons. Eagles (Coats and cuffs), New York Coat, unusual 3D flower button, flat buttons and button backs.
My Favs -Two Michigan cuffs and a Mass. Vol. Militia cuff. Firsts for me.
In all, over 50 3-ringers, a few carbines, pistol bullets and Enfields and two handfuls of camp lead - One with three percussion caps stuck in the lead.
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