Confederate buttons are rare... thought the Civil War guys would be all over this one .
Gary
Found today. Very fragile . Since I rarely find buttons , any idea? View attachment 1517468
Since Davers and probably you are interested in what your button's back can tell us about its specific identity... your photo shows it has the classic civil war era British-made "tire" loop (meaning, very nearly a perfect circle sitting on the button's back). The majority of the Confederate-imported Old English Script letter buttons were made by Smith, Kemp, & Wright of Birmingham England.
View attachment 1518090 I have a friend who has considerably more knowledge about this than meet. He thinks it might be a confederate "E" engineers button. Check out the 3 photos. View attachment 1518085 View attachment 1518086