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Civil war Virginia Officers button?? Any ideas and help with bulletts

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Found these today at an 1800s house site. Any help on identification on the bulletts and button would be appreciated. Sorry for the bad pictures.
 

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I believe that is a Civil War Virginia state button. Nice finds. I believe that pistol bullet is modern though.
 
The button is one of several varieties of Virginia State Militia buttons. Yours is shown as button VA-13 in the book "Record Of American Uniform And Historical Buttons" by Alphaeus H. Albert. Yours is a 2-piece button, so it was not worn by officers, who wore 3-piece buttons. Although VA-13 buttons have been found with many names as the backmark, all VA-13 buttons were made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury CT, from 1850 to early-1861, when Virginia seceded from the US. No VA-13 buttons are listed in the Albert book as having been made after the civil war.

Sorry, but unlike your VA-13 button, the bullet is definitely from sometime in the late-1800s or 1900s.
 
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How about the other buttons and the two musket balls? Are they civil war era?
 

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