For all of you who are interested in Civil War finds.

[bryan]

The following is a list of relics and artifacts most commonly encountered by a searcher at battle or camp sites.

1. Buckles
Oval US United States
Oval CS Confederate States

2.Buttons
Enlisted
CSA - General Staff
I - Infantry
A - Artillery
C - Cavalry
VV - Veteran Volunteers
R - Rifleman
E - Engineers
US Plain Eagle with Shield

3. Principal Types of Small Arms Ammunitions:
a. The widely used 58 cal. minie.
b. Williams Vleaner 58 cal.
c. CS Enfield 577 cal. import
d. Spencer 56//52 cal.
e. Round Ball 69 cal. for Smooth Bore Muskets
f. Buck and Ball 69 cal.

4.Percussion Caps
A small copper cap with four slits on the sides for igniting powder in a gun.

5. Canteens:
US Bulls Eye
CS Tin Type

6. Stamped Brass Hat Insignias
Small Bugle - Infantry
Crossed Cannons - Artillery
Crossed Swards - Cavalry

7. Standard Civil War Federal Horse Bit
Marked US Brass.
CS bit usually Iron with rosettes bearing the letter "C"

8. Small Iron Knapsack Hasks

9. Sholder Scales
Made of stamp brass and were attached to the coat by a wing stud screwed to the coat on top of the sholder by the collar for protection against sabre blows.

10. Stencils
Stencils were made of brass and varied in size usually with name, company letter, and regiment.

11. Entrenching Tools
They included saws, felling axes, shovels, and picks.

12. Pocket Knives, Folding

13. Round Led Disks/Chips
Made of flattened lead bars or bullets; used for poker chips, or checkers.

14. Gun Sling Hooks
Made of Iron or Brass

15. Ball Screw
Made for extracting a bullet from the barrel of a gun.

16. Civil War Bayonets
Made of Iron or Steel.

17. Spurs
Made of Brass

18. Bowie Knife

19. Picket Pin
Made of Iron. For staking cavalry horses.

20. Field Artillery Projectiles
pattern Sabot Fusing
a. Soherical Woodcup -------
b. Conical-cannister leadcup -------
c. Archer lead band -------
d. Hotchkiss lead band Bromann time
e. Parrott wrought iron run zinc parrot fuseplug
f. Bead copper ring paper time fuse
g. Schenk wooden Schenk Percussion fuse
h. Selma copper plate paper time fuse
i. Whitworth --------- -------


I hope this helps....Silly me i closed the page and had to type it twice. boy my arm hurts...
Night all


Also I ment up today with Michael Foster, A local THer. We went to acouple of spots and found some clad change.
Nothing to brag about.... Just having fun getting out with other people....Thats what its all about right?
Now I really need to go to bed, so quit keeping me here darnit...

 

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[Charlene]

Thanks Bryan, that can come in handy, I printed it out for future reference.

 

[nhbenz]

Wait a minute... you didn't have to type that twice, I hope . You could just highlight it, press "CTRL" and "C" to cut (save) it, then paste it here by pressing "Ctrl" and "V" to paste it. Anyway, that is an interesting list. Hey Bryan, how did you make out with your hunt for arrowheads yesterday?

 

[civilman1]

And soon as I find them all I will post them.That's a hell of lot of find's bryan,almost the Grand Slam of CW.Thank's for sharing the info.......one of these day's...God willing....HH!!

 

[River Rat]

Thanks, Bryan.

This a a great reference list. You put a lot of work into typing & posting for us. A good deed!!

HH

 

[Smartin]

Bryan,
Good info.Thanks. I hope to do some relic hunting soon. I live within 150 miles of a dozen CW battle fields.(all in TN)

Smartin

Thought I'd incude the map, hope you can read it. I live about 25 miles from the Fort Sanders battle in Knoxville.

 

[bryan]

No prob everyone. I Just thought that i would share for those who are interested, kinda paying back all of you who have helped me get started. Just to let you all know (civilman1) This IS NOT a list of the things that I have found. This is a list of artifacts most commonly encountered by a searcher at battle or camp sites. OK dont think that i have found all of this stuff and i am a MASTER THer or something like that. cause im not

nhbenz- and RR i didnt have any luck the other day arrowhead hunting, but i have now been turned on to 2 more hunt sites...... I will let you all know when i find something, believe me i will be yelling loud and clear when i do...


nhbenz- i had to type it twice because the first time i was typing it i closed the page before i hit send so i lost it all.

Night all

 

[nhbenz]

Thanks again Bryan. The cut/paste stuff I rambled on about is (of course) only useful is you find info on a web site (and if they don't mind "borrowing" of their info)... I don't know where you found the list, but I like it. -Ben

 

[tsgman]

Great info, believe it or not I have a item from every category, except the following, Bayonet, hat pin, Bowie knife, stencil, and canteen, except I have a couple of lids to the canteens. So I have a quest to complete the list, arg!!!! Tsgman

 

[bryan]

hey do you by any chance have a battle field list of KY? good luck on completing that list tsgman!!!

 

[tsgman]

No I do not, I hunt in Missouri, sorry. Tsgman

 

[bryan]

no i understood it that you hunted in the ozark mountains. right?

 

[Southcacalaky]

Thanks for the info, HH Art...