Why you find a mix of relics on Civil War battlefields and in Camps

[creskol]

This image is a "must see" for all of those familiar with the Wilderness in VA.

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[smokeythecat]

Creskol, precisely! The battlefield and campsites were visited the same year of the incidents all the way up to today! I saw a cool pic from Gettysburg where the heavily overcoated Yanks were posing on Devil's Den about 6 months after the battle. People including vets visit Normandy, etc. My last 1865 Indian cent was found on an 1864 battlefield. Grave diggers probably lost it. Lots of unemployed folks were employed by the Feds to bury the dead, as by war's end a lot were still left just lying where they fell. Evan as late as a couple years ago a lady was observing a groundhog hole at Antietam and found some buttons and called the park folks and they found a Mass. soldier and dug him up and reinterred him in Mass.

BTW war stinks.

 

[ticndig]

I lived a few miles from wilderness for many years , I recall digging a permission on the furnace Rd where I found military relics from the revolutionary war ,war of 1812, civil war and WW-1 . And dug another such site just across the river in Stafford county . both sites are near iron works furnaces. one was owned by Gov Spotswood and the other by George Washington.