CW Bullets, brass, leather & as pretty a button as Ive dug

[parsonwalker]

CW Bullets, brass, leather & as pretty a button as I've dug

Hunted the Union camp on Friday. Went back to where I found the gauntlet buttons and dug two rivets side by side with lots of leather attached. I know there's no real "value" there, but stuff like that just lights me up. Leather that survived 150 years in the ground . . . and holding that leather, wondered who carried it? Belt? Sword belt? Cartridge box? Cap box? Dug small iron buckle and as pretty a New York button as I've ever dug. This is "post cleaning" of course. Anybody got any ideas on the small brass escutcheon just upper left of the button? Looks like off a modern diary, but finding NO modern junk in this spot. It's always a good day for me if I can bring home a button, but can't WAIT for harvest so I can hit the fields! All the 3-ringers are dropped, but some have plow and animal damage. The impacted bullet is an enfield. Looks like at least one ole southern boy took a pot-shot at the camp!

 

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[jewelerguy]

beautiful button!

 

[creskol]

WoW .. You hit the jackpot .. What a nice display of period goodies!

 

[Vonclemen29]

Wow, awesome freakin button!! Get out there an get the rest. Congrats!

 

[duggap]

I believe that soldier only lost that yesterday.

 

[TNGUNS]

Wow....... killer stuff. Congrats on the NY Button.

 

[Tnmountains]

Outstanding. I got a rivet the other day with a little leather still in there. Got to get fired up about that. Great hunt that button looks to be just lost. I will take an Enfield over a 3 ringer any day. Nice hunt sir !

 

[Mach1Pilot]

Very nice finds! Wish every dug button could be preserved like that one.

 

[parsonwalker]

Thanks everybody. Funny thing about the button - I've found 12 buttons at this camp, and anticipate a few more once the crops are off. But boy, does the fertilizer do a number on them. This button came out of the woods, as have a couple more. The field-found ones are in MUCH worse shape. I can only conclude it's the fertilizer. The difference is startling, and emphasizes the NEED to collect CW artifacts as quickly as possible, despite what the "preservationists" say. Yeah, I feel sorry for the future generations who may not pull much out of the soil, but these buttons, at least the ones in cultivated fields . . . are falling apart so quickly. This woods found button probably would have made it another 50 years, but the others? Not so much.

 

[pepperj]

Great looking button and getting it out of the bush shows how kind the soils are still.

 

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