First Gold of the Year + Civil War Relics from a Confederate Camp

Dman · Mar 20, 2010

Vol and I went to visit Josh. He had invited us down to hunt a spot where he had found the U.S. breastplate. After hunting for a few hours, digging a few bullets, and quite a few horse shoes, we took a break. We concluded this site was where John Hunt Morgan had kept his horses. I believe Vol was originally here with General Morgan, keeping his horses. That is why he knew this was the spot. I found a knife there, and Vol claimed he had dropped it in 1863. He wanted it back. The gold cuff link was found at a Yankee camp south of my home town. I found a 1937 penny, and gave it to Josh. We all had a great time and hope to get back there again in a couple of weeks, before the grass gets high. Thanks for looking.
Dman
P.S. Vol previously posted the CW finds with his and Josh's on an earlier post. This post is my finds cleaned up.

ModernMiner · Mar 20, 2010

Some great lead there Dman. :thumbsup:

Congrats on the Yankee gold too.

As far as, "I believe Vol was originally here with General Morgan, keeping his horses. That is why he knew this was the spot."
HILARIOUS!!! (and true too) :laughing9:

-MM-

VOL1266-X · Mar 20, 2010

It's about time that you posted the last couple of hunts. I thought you were kidding about finding gold when you finished covering that hole up but it was the real deal on that very old cufflink from the U.S. camp. I may have dropped that when Gen. Morgan and I attacked that camp near Gallatin. Colonial Hunt is next. You cartainly can't complain about your luck during the last month of our Tenn. relic hunting!!!