Located CW Union Camp

[kycanine]

After conducting three months research, I believe I have located a Union Camp. It was used on and off for about three years after the Battle of Perryville. A buddy and I went out this morning and located two bullets, several square nails, and lots of melted lead. This was located in anly a very short time. I am new at this, so all suggestions, ideas, and comments are welcomed and appreciated.

 

[WeaponsUSMC]

Looks like you found your camp, nice three ringers, and those two pieces of melted lead were most likely bullets at one time as well.

 

[kycanine]

Sorry about the HUGE pic. I can't figure out how to shrink it.

 

[Ron B]

Hello Ky!
I'd say you're doing just fine; awesome if you indeed have found a Union camp!
Unbelievable this day and age!

Try one/both of these links; they'll help you with your pictures. You'll need to register.
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GRB

 

[d2]

The best advice I could give would be Dont tell anyone where and go SLOW. No telling what y'all will find. Congrats...d2

 

[ghost_rider]

Great finds!!! One of those in the photos is not melted lead but is instead a chewed bullet, you can see the teeth marks.

These were used during medical procedures, ever heard bite the bullet!!!! Amputations etc.

Keep working the site and you will soon have a nice collection of CW relics, I'm envious

 

[Montana Jim]

I'd like to see army/sodier relics before calling it a camp - bullets and nails are everyplace and do not a camp make.

Looking forward to more finds from you! Looks like you'll be digging more... I know I'd be spending lottsa time there!



I also read many times that the "bite the bullet" thing may have just been soldiers chewing lead like gum...

 

[Dman]

Great finds. Look for a source of water, also surrounding hills for picket posts.
Dman

 

[49r Relics]

You mean an actual Union Camp where they have not put up "No Tresspassing" signs everywhere?? Definitely keep it under your cap. You are extremely fortunate to have found it, that research looks like it paid off. The moment the authorities find out that a university has not yet completely sifted out all of the relics, they will try and figure out a way to keep you out. I am all for archaeology and preserving history but I feel bad for you guys out there where every good CW site is posted no metal detectors or no tresspassing. I wish you the best there!

HH, Mark

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Nice start! Go slow... dig and dig deep!!! Even the iron hits! Look at a USGS map and go for close water sources, check all the hilltops and worked the whole area! You need to hit everywhere... and if it has been hunted before.. hunt the hillside.. in hunted camps I have had beeter luck finding the picket posts and hunting the hillsides. I really can not stress a nice slow hunt! I was hunted a huge farm.. and walked across a pretty big field, 20 - 25 acres, and the "first" thing I dug was a US bucket about 4/5 the way across the field. I started hunted in a circle from there and dug a few hundred 3 ringers, a eagle plate and a a bunch of other stuff but I had zipped right on through this field on a fast sweep and missed almost all of it it I slowed down!!! Stuff had been spread due to years of plowing but was all over the place... and I was hunting way too fast.. ;-)

The US buckle I dug in that field was the only one that still had some of the leather still attached to it!!!! I hunted the field the next day in the pouring rain!!!! ;-)

Good luck!!!

MonkeyBoy

 

[WeaponsUSMC]

The hospital bullet or chewed bullets can be odd, but animals for some reason liked to chew these bullets as well. so teeth marks dont always mean they were used for "bitting the bullet"

 

[kycanine]

Thanks for all the advice, folks. I will definitely slow it down and check the higher elevations very carefully. Hopefully I will have more to show soon.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Thanks for all the advice, folks. I will definitely slow it down and check the higher elevations very carefully. Hopefully I will have more to show soon.

MOST of the camps I've hunted (that were not forts, or entrenchments) were in Low-lying places.


-Buckleboy