Union camp hunt, bullets and buttons

Mach1Pilot · Dec 17, 2011

Had fun diggin' with FortBedfordBob and DeArmittPA yesterday. Dug a lot of lead, and a fair amount of buttons. I also found a button that DeArmitt ended up digging... threatened to use the "TDI jammer button" on him after that! :laughing9:

Maybe they will chime in with their finds.

Did have a couple of questions on the finds, I'd appreciate if anyone can help confirming the ID of a few items.

One is what I think is the tip of a ramrod?

The second is a latch - but to what? Both items look to be period correct..

Thanks for looking

civilman1 · Dec 18, 2011

Great looking variety of save's there M1P :icon_thumright:

The item for ID look's to be the item #4 on pg.99 of Crouch's book.Does it have a little wire coming from one end? Nice dig's!!!

The Patriot · Dec 18, 2011

Great saves...love to find one of those eagle buttons some day

MKnTenn · Dec 18, 2011

Nice hunt with lots of cool finds, hope i do that good today. HH

Woodland Detectors · Dec 18, 2011

Great to see you all got out! Great finds with a great group of friends that joined you

treasurehound · Dec 18, 2011

Congrats on some great finds.

Getty · Dec 18, 2011

Thats a great group of saves Mach !!!

jewelerguy · Dec 18, 2011

super cool finds :headbang:

VOL1266-X · Dec 18, 2011

Nice finds M1. I dug a complete latch like that in the pic at an old homesite near a large Union camp. I believe mine is a latch from an old kitchen cabinet but who knows?? HH, Quindy.

Mach1Pilot · Dec 18, 2011

Thanks guys!

civilman1 said:
Great looking variety of save's there M1P The item for ID look's to be the item #4 on pg.99 of Crouch's book.Does it have a little wire coming from one end? Nice dig's!!!

That could be the item.... it has an iron pin in it across one end, and is filled with wood. That's what had me thinking ramrod, but I've been wrong many times before! :tongue3:

Thanks!

VOL1266-X said:
Nice finds M1. I dug a complete latch like that in the pic at an old homesite near a large Union camp. I believe mine is a latch from an old kitchen cabinet but who knows?? HH, Quindy.

You have a cool latch! :thumbsup:

We don't think there was a homesite near this camp, as there is nothing showing on the map and nothing else has popped up to indicate that.

Woodland Detectors said:
Great to see you all got out! Great finds with a great group of friends that joined you

Yep. Great guys to hunt with. :icon_thumright:

The only thing that could have made it better was if my son been able to make it.

But then again he would have wanted to take the GPX out of my hands... last time he came I ended up digging holes for him while he ran the GPX because everything was out of the range of the Etrac.