Help on confederate coat button and revolver

[oldbattleaxe]

Need some expertise forum. His coat button looks like a large 8. Could it be regimental? I didn't think the south used regimental buttons unless they were left overs from the Revolutionary War? Is that a colt dragoon? Help needed

 

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[oldbattleaxe]

It could be? If you look at the upper button it does show a what looks like a C

 

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