What a beauty! This has been my huckleberry since I began CW relic hunting in the Murfreesboro area during the early 1970's; and of course, since then. I began digging around Perryville while on vacations in the early 1980's. The owner of the largest collection of Perryville relics, who had found similar buckles, took me on a tour in 1981 and showed me the location of every camp before and after the battle. He and I hunted at Perryville and I photographed him for a magazine article, which I never published. My finds were frags and canister shot-lead and iron. Regarding these camps, not being from the area, I was totally lost and could not find my way back to any of them--wish I had a map with me to mark the locations. I returned later and hunted a farmers high property along the entrance into the park finding pieces of sabot and frags. It is my understanding that farm has since been acquired by the park.
