Infantry Button?

[muerte33]

We were out detecting at a local park today, and I came across this button. I just tossed it into my bag, but when I got home, I got pretty excited!

The back has WMH Smith & Co New York
22.12 mm

 

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[villagenut]

Yup, and a nice one

 

[Old Pueblo]

Yes its Infantry, and if you found it in Mississippi its probably from the Civil War. Nice find, I wish I could find one.

 

[Carolina Tom]

Very nice eagle I button!

 

[trapperart]

Nice button congrats

 

[Trezurehunter]

As the others stated, It is and its nice ! Congrats.

 

[pepperj]

Nice recovery on the button.

 

[against the wind]

Lots of gilt on that button.
Congratulations

 

[muerte33]

Yes its Infantry, and if you found it in Mississippi its probably from the Civil War. Nice find, I wish I could find one.

Yes, in Jones County, MS.
That is what is interesting because we did not have a lot of activity around our county.
We had one minor skirmish over at Rocky Creek, and the Newt Knight stuff, but no major battles.

 

[CRUSADER]

Yes, in Jones County, MS.
That is what is interesting because we did not have a lot of activity around our county.
We had one minor skirmish over at Rocky Creek, and the Newt Knight stuff, but no major battles.

Actually I believe its just Pre-CW.

WM. H. Smith operated up-to about 1858.
Here is a button with the same backmark;
CWArtifax.com*Catalog

I'm not saying it wasn't used in the CW, because it may have been. It's a fairly scarce backmark.

 

[bonepicker]

Nice looking button. I tried looking in Tice's book, and couldn't find much on that back-mark.
There was one example that said Wm. H. SMITH NEW YORK, the m had an underscore and was lower-case, and the Eagle I design was a little different.