Recent hunt yields GMI Cadet Button, ID ring, and 1838 Seated Half Dime.

[JDug]

Recently I've been mowing a clumpy hay field on my brigade camp and having some success. On this day the very 1st section yielded 3 great targets in a row. The GMI button, the 1st Confederate button from this camp, then the ID ring that more then likely belonged to T H Pigeons who was camped there for 5 months and then the 1838 half dime. I mowed 1 more section and finished out the day with a few odds and ends. After a year of digging this camp (CONSTANTLY) I found some of my best finds with a little extra effort. HH

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

A Handbook of Civil War Bullets and Cartridges - Grab it through Amazon!

[beez0404]

It looks like all the extra work paid off. When I ask permission to hunt someone's yard and they say yes I generally ask them to mow it prior to my coming back. Makes it a whole lot easier to swing in short grass.

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

A History of Mining on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska - Grab it through Amazon!

[Tnmountains]

Thanks Davers , I'm super stoked about all of them especially finding them back to back to back. I was really stoked about the GMI button, but it hasn't got near the attention as the ring. It's the only confederate button I've dug on this site out of hundreds of buttons. I figured it to be pretty rare sense they were only in operation 10 years before the War and Sherman's army burnt it down in 1864.

After Chattanooga or Tunnel hill and Resaca Sherman burnt everything south of Atlanta.You are right though on the rarity of the GMI button.