Woodland Detectors
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One of my 3 digging partners and club brother from S.M.A.R.T.S (Smoky Mountain Artifact Research and Treasure Society) emailed a diary from a soldier.
We do a lot of Civil war reading and research. He recently sent me a topic to read of some movement in Tennessee where we hunt. I ran across this piece that I thought was interesting.
It reads:
The animals wild, but tame we are told by writers that, when a prominent Colonel passed through a section from the french Broad to the Tennessee river, the wild animals gathered along the way and watched the Colonel's troops advance and followed after it, in amazed curiosity. The Indians were not accustomed to kill animals for sport, but they killed them only when it was necessary to do so for food. The result was the animals did not realize they were in danger; but it only took only a very short time for them to learn to avoid the white man.
August, mid 1800's
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I myself hunt for food only, and feel it is necessary.
But, to imagine the wildlife following in amazement intrigues me.
We do a lot of Civil war reading and research. He recently sent me a topic to read of some movement in Tennessee where we hunt. I ran across this piece that I thought was interesting.
It reads:
The animals wild, but tame we are told by writers that, when a prominent Colonel passed through a section from the french Broad to the Tennessee river, the wild animals gathered along the way and watched the Colonel's troops advance and followed after it, in amazed curiosity. The Indians were not accustomed to kill animals for sport, but they killed them only when it was necessary to do so for food. The result was the animals did not realize they were in danger; but it only took only a very short time for them to learn to avoid the white man.
August, mid 1800's
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I myself hunt for food only, and feel it is necessary.
But, to imagine the wildlife following in amazement intrigues me.
