My First Civil War Find! Swinging Before The Storm.

[Subterranean]

With a big snow storm on track for our area tonight and tomorrow, I went to one of my favorite local sites just to get some exercise. I was not expecting much. I was working a wagon road that is said to have been used by Confederate troops from Harrison, Arkansas, to advance on a Union fortification in Ozark, Missouri. I found my first "wild" (not planted at a hunt,) three ringer, yay! I also found a brass or copper heart pendant (?), with scroll work on it. I found what may be a piece of a buckle, unknown design and era-maybe a fellow T-netter can help me out on it, and a large, antique shell casing marked "U.M.C. .45 Govt." I topped off a fun hunt with a small, Archaic spear tip. With the field grass low and the ticks gone, this is the time for swinging. Happy Hunting. Sub

 

[dig kzoo]

N!ice

 

[Tnmountains]

Nice finds. That first 3 ringer is sweet! I remember mine. Looks like you are in the right spot. The spear tip was it broke? Good luck and thanks for sharing!

 

[Subterranean]

Nice finds. That first 3 ringer is sweet! I remember mine. Looks like you are in the right spot. The spear tip was it broke? Good luck and thanks for sharing!

Hi Tn,thanks for the kind words. The little gray chert spear tip was broken, I have a nice lower half with little dog ears. This little plateau overlooking a nice creek was definitely a Native American campsite, based on all of the flakes, partials, and full points we have found here. Sub

 

[Toby1858]

Good job! It's funny because I recently found a union camp on fifty acres I was givin permission to hunt a few months back just a few miles NW of Ozark in Linden. I've done pretty good almost sixty bullets, 54 cal. And a couple of eagle buttons, I'd just love to know if they were pushing the troops on your trail back or headed to Wilson's creek, or what! Probably never know.

 

[JmCraz8]

Nice mini ball!!!!