VOL1266-X
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- Joined
- Jan 10, 2007
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- Location
- Northern Middle Tennessee
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher 1266-X, F75 X 2
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Gen. Crook's U.S. Troops helped me fill another box with CW Relics
With snow and temps in the 20s in Tennessee today, it's a good time to organize relics and watch basketball and the NFL playoffs. Yesterday, I drove Dman to his doctor for a follow up to his shoulder surgery after Christmas and he's doing well. It will be several more weeks before he can relic hunt though. I had to buy a larger display box (Dman whines about that all the time-LOL) and add relics from last week for one U.S. site. This is the my 6th box from that CW site in Smith County,Tennessee known as "Battery Hill". The box in the pic represents finds from about 12 trips from Dec. 2009 through last week. I also have a jar and small boxes of artillery canister, lead slugs, and sabot pieces from shells fired at that site. Dman has many nice recoveries from that site before his surgery and Josh has a great start on a nice box.
This is an interesting site that had a complement of over 6,000 Union Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry troops at the peak of 1863 occupation. There were rifle pits all over the very large hill and 4 separate U.S. Camps spread out near the junction of the Cumberland and Caney Forks Rivers. When water was high, Union gunboats could come up from Nashville to supply the camp. Gen. George Crook, famed Indian fighter called "Nan Tan Lu Pan" (Gray Wolf) by Geronimo and the Chiroicahua Apaches was a Brigadier General in command of the camp from early 1863 until he was ordered to Western Virginia in Feb. 1864. There was a strong Union presence from mid 1862 until the end of the war. Gen. John Hunt Morgan's men harassed the U.S. troops with surprise attacks and ambushed foraging parties in 1863 but no major engagements occurred there. The artillery relics we recover is from a target range and test firing of the cannons.
I do sympathize with Tnett friends snowed in who can't hunt during this time of year (Attn. Mainer). If you get bored or just like seeing relics, click on "VOL1266-X" and visit my profile page. I have posted 4 pages of relic pics and info. on the sites where the relics were recovered. Happy hunting from Dman (who can barely type), Josh, and myself, Quindy.
With snow and temps in the 20s in Tennessee today, it's a good time to organize relics and watch basketball and the NFL playoffs. Yesterday, I drove Dman to his doctor for a follow up to his shoulder surgery after Christmas and he's doing well. It will be several more weeks before he can relic hunt though. I had to buy a larger display box (Dman whines about that all the time-LOL) and add relics from last week for one U.S. site. This is the my 6th box from that CW site in Smith County,Tennessee known as "Battery Hill". The box in the pic represents finds from about 12 trips from Dec. 2009 through last week. I also have a jar and small boxes of artillery canister, lead slugs, and sabot pieces from shells fired at that site. Dman has many nice recoveries from that site before his surgery and Josh has a great start on a nice box.
This is an interesting site that had a complement of over 6,000 Union Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry troops at the peak of 1863 occupation. There were rifle pits all over the very large hill and 4 separate U.S. Camps spread out near the junction of the Cumberland and Caney Forks Rivers. When water was high, Union gunboats could come up from Nashville to supply the camp. Gen. George Crook, famed Indian fighter called "Nan Tan Lu Pan" (Gray Wolf) by Geronimo and the Chiroicahua Apaches was a Brigadier General in command of the camp from early 1863 until he was ordered to Western Virginia in Feb. 1864. There was a strong Union presence from mid 1862 until the end of the war. Gen. John Hunt Morgan's men harassed the U.S. troops with surprise attacks and ambushed foraging parties in 1863 but no major engagements occurred there. The artillery relics we recover is from a target range and test firing of the cannons.
I do sympathize with Tnett friends snowed in who can't hunt during this time of year (Attn. Mainer). If you get bored or just like seeing relics, click on "VOL1266-X" and visit my profile page. I have posted 4 pages of relic pics and info. on the sites where the relics were recovered. Happy hunting from Dman (who can barely type), Josh, and myself, Quindy.
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Didn't Q drive you to the doctor recently? He may have bribed him with CW relics. I wouldn't put it past that silver haired trickster. 
8) 8) glad you got out before the snow 
8) profile and pics ... cattle baron is bigtime work , my pop had livestock 
dawg
