civil war site!

[family_fortune]

Some finds of a civil war site! in central Missouri! found all this year!

 

[Hutch911]

Nice finds ! Those company letters are hard to come across!

 

[deltamann]

Ditto on the Company letters. Nice relics!

 

[VOL1266-X]

Nice recoveries!! HH, Quindy.

 

[family_fortune]

thanks if anyone has information on the relics please feel free to help me out!

 

[SeatedorBust]

Nice Digs!!! Hows the weather over there?? Greetings from southwestern Missouri!

 

[family_fortune]

cold but still out there hunting hard.

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Great hunt!
Your Shield Nickels are probably 1867, not 1887.
I swear those nickels have the smallest dates on any American coin!
Carl

 

[OtraVez]

Sweet is there any date on that 3 center?

 

[tatman]

the 3 cent piece is 1851, the shield nickels were red coming out of ground, worchestershire sauce removed patina, dates are small and toasted...thought I had a 1878 first....no such luck

 

[BosnMate]

It's interesting to see in this and other posts, the number of Civil War era horseshoes that have been worn in two. To wear a shoe out that bad takes either leaving the shoe on the horse way too long, or hard riding in rocky ground. Packing mules into the Desolation Valley Wilderness in California, we had shoes wear in two in 4 or 5 weeks, but that ground in the Sierra Nevada is solid granite rock. In soft soil, if a horse is shod in 6 weeks or so, which is what the army recomended, the used shoe could be reset, or used over probably one time, then the second time it would be to thin for resetting, and a new one is used. Of course horses were used for a lot of things besides cavalry, anyway, it gives me something to think about.

 

[mikeshayne]

Great finds. I especially like the kep letter. I have never found any in Missouri but my friend Abe stumbled upon a mid-Missouri camp many years ago and found several. I just love Missouri and it was not until 4 years ago I started hitting sites in Missouri. I think we have probably covered some of the same areas like Otterville over the years.

Congratulations and glad to see fellow Missourians out there preserving our civil war history.

 

[Ken in Georgia]

Sweet !!!!

 

[civilman1]

Nice dig's

 

[treasurehound]

Nice finds. Missouri is so rich with CW relics. It was the third most active state in the war. I used to live in Eldon for several years and have heard of many stories of nearby camps. I understand there was a large camp in Tipton which I never hunted. Again congrats on some nice finds.

 

[metalev4]

Company letter "E" is nice, tough one to dig.
-Evan

 

[Thunderchild]

Great finds there. I never realized there was so much CW activity in Missouri. Thanks for pointing that out. Glenn