Civil war finds from Resaca,Ga 2-10-08

[johnreb1980]

Done a little hunting yesterday,not to bad of a day. We hunted for about an hour and a half. I found my first teardrop pistol bullet. It was miscast so ,I would assume they just through it down. I found several melted bullets ,a spencer casing,and some rivets. I did find neat item,it was a navy anchor stamped on the rivet,well not really stamped it is raised off the surface. Has any one found or seen any like these? This is the first one I have seen or for that matter heard of. I would like to think one of those soldiers had some kind of navy accouterment or something of that nature. I am amazed that they would stamp something like a rivet. Thanks for looking. Jonathon

 

[brnn53]

I have seen one on the other boards. Nice finds!
Mike

 

[civilman1]

Nice group of find's....What kind of site do you think it was?

 

[johnreb1980]

The site was part of the Battle of Resaca,which was the first major battle of the Atlanta Campaign. I believe they were camping a little in the area that these was found.

 

[relic8hunter]

being a rivet that big I would be inclined to think of a Naval sword belt...there are a few giant rivets in a sword belt/hanger set-up and that could be the path that one came from...possibly. nice finds.

 

[Nana40]

Super finds, John! 8)

 

[wyattrr]

Great Cw finds...Congrats

 

[topdog]

Really nice finds, thanks for sharing.

 

[randall61]

nice finds,i've been doing some work there...... hope to hunt there soon.


Randall

 

[spiffyman]

cool finds, glad to see some civil war relics found close to home

 

[Pepper2004]

Nice finds. Hope you find more.

 

[rebelfirefighter07]

Are you from around Resaca?? I'm from Tunnel Hill. I reenact the battle every year down in Resaca. I aint ever had the chance to metal detect down there cause I aint been able to chase down a place to go yet. I do hear about alot of relics still comming out of the area though.

 

[hikermike]

Wow!! Nice digs!! Gotta go back! Keep up the good work!
hh
mike

 

[civilman1]

Hey Jonathen...I was just looking at some map's and came across a map of the Resaca Battle(May 13-16,1864) Look's like Calhoun Ferry Rd and the T at Resaca Rd. were hammered.....Are you anywhere near there?

 

[johnreb1980]

civilman1 I am fairly close to that area. I use to have permission to hunt some of that area,but the old man died and his son took over. There are still a bunch of trench's on that property. The property we are hunting now also has some trech's on it.