✅ SOLVED WWI, WWII or other?

[HutSiteDigger]

Found this in a civil war camp and found out it was not cw and i am still trying too determine what it is. There was a very old early 20th century house site about 200 yards from this camp that was there from 1915 too 1930ish and i am expecting it came from there... Anyone? thanks and Happy hunting...

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Three important ID and time-dating characteristics for your US Army Infantry insignia:
1- The letter-&-number are part of the insignia's body, instead of being entirely separate from it as they were until 1895.
2- The rifles are flintlock muskets, not the Breechloader rifles used on the Infantry insignia from 1906 to 1923.
3- The attachment-form on your Infantry insignia is a pin-clasp (instead of wires, or a screw-post, or clutch-pins). The pin-clasp was used on Officers' Infantry insignia from 1895 to 1923, and on enlisted-men's from 1896 to 1923. But yours has flintlock muskets, so it can't be the 1906-1923 version.

By combining those characteristics, your insignia dates from 1896 to 1905.

That information comes from the following webpage, which you might want to bookmark for future use. Note, it also has pages on US Artillery and Cavalry insignia. Evolution of U.S. Army Infantry Insignia

 

[HutSiteDigger]

Thanks so much CBG.. I have been trying too pull old land records and maybe get a name of this person who use to own this old house site in hopes I can pull up military records but so far been hitting roadblocks! Thanks really a bunch!

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

I added some clarifying info into my post.