Day 2 at the slave house: CW buckle, Rev.war button, Half Cent, 36 buttons!

[Coilcrazy2]

Hey everyone!
If you have read
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/t...-watch-key-jacksonian-button.html#post4882216

then you have seen the finds from my first visit to the African American family homestead. Day 2 was yesterday and I managed to find some really great things. I brought a friend with me and he found some goodies as well. I managed to find a "FZ" Civil war 2 piece buckle. I believe that stands for Fire Zouaves but i'm not sure and would appreciate any information you can give about that. I also found my FIRST REGIMENTAL BUTTON. I believe it says 56th regiment. I haven't researched it just yet. My buddy found the exact same one (as seen in the slideshow) but his has the shank still. I also found 35 other buttons! Some had fancy and some were plain. One of them was a CW artillary coat button. I also found an 1826 half cent, a smoothy copper and a beautiful 1819 Large cent. I gave that one to the owner and he was thrilled I wish I wouldve gotten pictures of it though. Anyways, I can't believe what an awesome site this has proven to be.

I decided to make a slideshow to pay tribute the african american family who owned the house long ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR8eDMo1r6U&feature=youtu.be

Thanks for watching!
CC

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[against the wind]

Wow,, that's quite a collection of finds.
Congrats on another really great hunt.

 

[stefen]

Lot of info on the web...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_New_York_Infantry

Hope this helps sort your buckle

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on some nice finds

 

[tomsneck]

Amazing day. Wish we had that much ground to look at here.

 

[texjim]

I would be on cloud 9. Awesome digs

 

[fishstick]

OUTSTANDING 2 dayz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wish they ALL could be like that!!!! BIG CONGRATZ.....

 

[baspinall]

Killer finds Ben! Really would like to see another example of that buckle. I found one PFZ.

 

[Showtime2385]

This place is where its at!

 

[OutdoorAdv]

Amazing two days I read it all and now I can't wait to go back and watch the two slide shows. Be right back....

 

[OutdoorAdv]

As I expected, your slideshow was as top notch as your Day 1 and Day 2 posts on here. All around amazed at your finds with a great story and amazing pictures. Your buddies axe head will clean up great with electrolysis. Nice work on the research and hope you get to hit this place hard for years to come.

 

[Pacivilwarluke]

That FZ buckle is mind blowing!! WOOOWW!

 

[Steve in PA]

Amazing day! That had to be a blast digging all that history.