Day 2 at Outpost Yields a Civil War Button

[Kyle PA]

KKC intended to receive the "A-OK" to hunt the pasture of a tenant farmer, but he was not home when we knocked. We have permission from the owner of the farm to hunt in the cow pasture, which is where an early dwelling was located. We will have to wait until next week it seems.

We decided to head back to last Sunday's pasture site where Kirk got the two Dandy buttons. We named it the "Hick Outpost," mainly because the early settler would have been considered a hick where he built this cabin. Everything we popped from the site last Sunday was late 1700s-early 1800s. Here is a pic of the "Hick Outpost."

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Well, I was hunting in the area where some pewter spoon pieces were dug and I got a nice pulltab reading. It turned out to be this Civil War infantry button.

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Here it is cleaned up.

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[Iron Patch]

I'd call that success! Will we be seeing a couple more posts?

 

[Kyle PA]

I'd call that success! Will we be seeing a couple more posts?

Nope. As you saw last weekend, the Outpost didn't produce much of anything. The settler was poor as can be and probably didn't have two coppers to rub together, as evidence of the zero coppers posted by us. Oh well, his neighbor a few miles away probably dropped us some real goodies. We will see next Sunday if the tenant farmer doesn't give us a problem.

 

[Iron Patch]

I'd call that success! Will we be seeing a couple more posts?

Nope. As you saw last weekend, the Outpost didn't produce much of anything. The settler was poor as can be and probably didn't have two coppers to rub together, as evidence of the zero coppers posted by us. Oh well, his neighbor a few miles away probably dropped us some real goodies. We will see next Sunday if the tenant farmer doesn't give us a problem.

Well at least you made the limited signals count. I have had many days that I dug far more but didn't get anything as good. These days all I can do is hope for a lucky military because the numbers aren't what they used to be.

 

[Kyle PA]

I'd call that success! Will we be seeing a couple more posts?

Nope. As you saw last weekend, the Outpost didn't produce much of anything. The settler was poor as can be and probably didn't have two coppers to rub together, as evidence of the zero coppers posted by us. Oh well, his neighbor a few miles away probably dropped us some real goodies. We will see next Sunday if the tenant farmer doesn't give us a problem.

Well at least you made the limited signals count. I have had many days that I dug far more but didn't get anything as good. These days all I can do is hope for a lucky military because the numbers aren't what they used to be.

Hey, we do dig military here in PA...but it is all Civil War.

 

[umrgolf]

Nice addition to the collection there Kyle.. Any day you get a chance to save some civil war history is a good day

 

[mainer]

Nice button Kyle! If you only get one keeper thats not a bad one to dig.

 

[{Sentinel}]

NICE Eagle "I" buddy ol' pal!!! Shoot yeah, saving some Civil War history is awesome......You've dug plenty of colonial

stuff so its nice to see you pullin out some nice Civil War items too!! Great Save if you ask me

 

[Dman]

Nice CW button.
Congrats
Dman

 

[VOL1266-X]

We have a lot of Hick sites down here Kyle-Nice button. HH, Quindy.

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

Still a nice find Kyle

 

[dwayne sueno]

sweet button. hope there are many more to come.

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

NICE Eagle "I" buddy ol' pal!!! Shoot yeah, saving some Civil War history is awesome......You've dug plenty of colonial

stuff so its nice to see you pullin out some nice Civil War items too!! Great Save if you ask me

This is the way I feel about it now. Colonial is great but we still have to enjoy EVERY outing.
Nice button Kyle.
Unc

 

[{Sentinel}]

NICE Eagle "I" buddy ol' pal!!! Shoot yeah, saving some Civil War history is awesome......You've dug plenty of colonial

stuff so its nice to see you pullin out some nice Civil War items too!! Great Save if you ask me

This is the way I feel about it now. Colonial is great but we still have to enjoy EVERY outing.
Nice button Kyle.
Unc

Thank Chris, and the way I see it, I was telling Kyle....other than Gettysburg and some other smaller engagements to the lead up of that battle, PA was virtually without any fighting in the Civil War......mainly only training camps.....So to find a CiviL War button there is Pretty darn good.....having to have come from a soldiers jacket once returning home from war, from a training/drilling camp, or from a fort....but from the description that Kyle gave and the photo, it seems as if the "Ol Hick" probably lost it off his shell jacket once returned from war. Good save Kyle and nice pics once again

 

[Kyle PA]

Thank you all for the replies! I am looking forward to taking you along with us during our adventures on the Pennsylvania frontier!

 

[romeo-1]

Nice find! Better that 99% of all crusty coppers or mean greenies1

 

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

Buttons are my second favorite thing to find. Looks like you have one that I have yet to dig


I see copper in your future...........


VPR

 

[Hill Billy]

Nice find Kyle, remember...rubbing two coppers together was hard for some to do. I find that peeps were poor round these parts. Sometimes a button is all that gives. I like the button

Hill