✅ SOLVED Help ID Eagle Button

[Rodger100]

Found at civil War skirmish site in AR

 

[Icewing]

"Western Military Institute, located in Drennon Springs, Kentucky, was formed in 1845, and merged with Nashville Military Institute in 1855."

Ridgeway Civil War Archive Buttons from Kentucky....DRAFT.....

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Rodger, welcome to T-Net and the What-Is-It? forum, the best place on the 'net for getting items CORRECTLY identified (and time-dated).

According to the McGuinn-&-Bazelon book on dating buttons by their backmark, your button's particular version of Scovill Mf'G Co./Waterbury backmark, written in raised lettering, dates your button to being manufactured in the "early 1850s."

Reference-book title and its authors:
"American Military Button Makers And Dealers; Their Backmarks & Dates" by William F. McGuinn & Bruce S. Bazelon

 

[fyrffytr1]

Even in the shape it is that is a very nice find and one to be proud of. Congratulations.

 

[against the wind]

Congrats on a really nice find.

 

[DigIron2]

welcome to tnet. That is a pretty darn scarce button you found there.