✅ SOLVED Buttons

[Gunrunner61]

Ok here's the Button that i was told was a Naval (Confederate) cuff Button, I leave that up to ya'll.
The other is an IDK......Can't see a back mark, Any help with this one would be great!
Thanks in Advance
Greg

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

First button:
Having an iron back and weakly defined eagle-standing-on-anchor emblem causes some people to think such buttons are Confederate-made. However, no Historical Document evidence has surfaced that the Confederates every manufactured any copies of that US Navy emblem on 2-piece or 3-piece buttons. Your button is not shown in any of the books on civil war Military buttons. (The book by Warren Tice does show a 1-piece "solid cast white-metal" version.) Therefore, we button-collectors believe the type you found are crude imitations of the US Navy button, manufactured for use on Civilian clothing, such as a blazer jacket or sportcoat. They start showing up in the late-1800s ...and are still being manufactured today. (See the Jo-Ann Fabrics & Sewing-Supplies website and stores.)

2nd button:
It is definitely an 1854-to-1874 US Army Enlisted-man's button. (The term "Enlisted-man" means the ranks of private, corporal, and sargeant ...buttons for Officers were fancier.) Diggers call the version you found simply as an "eagle button." It is the most common civil war Military-issue button.

 

[Gunrunner61]

CBG,
Thanks for the reply to my question, The first Button was found at what is called "THE DOG POUND", In Dalton,Ga. A man there MDing at the same time as I came over and asked what I'd found, After showing him the Button. He went Kinda nuts Telling me that I'd found a Confed. Naval cuff button and how super rare they were, But! as you say I could never match it up to any one in a book or other collection. And thanks for the Id on the enlisted mans eagle....All the best and ...............................HH

 

[duggap]

I can't believe there is anything left in the "dog pound". We found a spot in there about ten years ago that was covered in trash in a big way. So we brought in rakes and cleaned it up and ended up with about 50 nice cast Is and north carolina buttons. Some nice fire pits also.

 

[Tnmountains]

I can not remember the times I have had people tell me that a place is hunted out. Just shows that people miss stuff all the time and new stuff come to the surface. Good finds Greg. I am hunting a place in Chattanooga that has never even had a metal detector on it. Imagine that
HH
TnMtns

 

[Gunrunner61]

I can not remember the times I have had people tell me that a place is hunted out. Just shows that people miss stuff all the time and new stuff come to the surface. Good finds Greg. I am hunting a place in Chattanooga that has never even had a metal detector on it. Imagine that
HH
TnMtns

Gees Richard! Now why you wanna go and tell me such as that! Now I'm running 'round the house All Bug eyed, Foaming at the mouth and muttering dirty words to myself.......Wife asked me if I needed to go to the Horsepital...... I told her to just find me a couple of Valiums and I'd be ok......lol
Good Luck on ya virgin ground.

 

[Kayleealways]

Could be like this one a friend found here. A coat sized confederate Louisiana pelican button. HH