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| crashbro17x |
My First Confederate ButtonI found this C.S.A. button Wednesday afternoon. I had placed the button in a cup of water for cleaning, but couldn't wait to take a pic and share!
Here are a few more things I've found from the same camp... 
Bit Boss ONE 
Bit Boss TWO 
Sling Buckle ONE 
Sling Buckle TWO 
Found several different brass buckles...this one was small...Penny there for size... 
Belt Plate Keeper ONE...DON'T HAVE A PICTURE OF THE SECOND ONE YET! 
My little woman 
Cool Little Buckle of Sorts 
Wedding Band with inscription on the inside 
Daddy found this button... 
he also found this scabbard tip... 
We have also probably found over 150-200 bullets all together on this site, a few button backs, another button unreadable by age and environment, a soldiers ID badge, carved bulltets, hammered bullets, pieces of spurs, pieces of guns, and a lot more....I would post more pics, but it is getting late and I need to be in bed...lol We found the site about a month ago and have hit it at least twice a week ever since....It has been the best site I have found... Thanks for looking! |
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| Ian |
Holy Cow!!!! Those are some very nice digs there!
LOL, How's Tennessee treating ya? Looks like it's treating you VERY well! Thanks for posting the pictures and keep it coming! We all love images of the finds! THANKS FOR JOINING, TOO! -Ian |
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| CenterHit |
Welcome to R&R.
Big time congrats on those finds! Looks like you got a great hot spot. Hope to see more pics as you find more. |
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| crashbro17x |
Hey thanks guys. I've got a few more pics from that camp that I will try and post tomorrow (Sunday)...like I said, we found it about a month ago and it has been amazzzzzzzzzzing! Tennessee always treats me well 
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| crashbro17x |
Ok...Took me a little longer to get back then I thought it would....Here are some more pics from them camp..Some are my finds, some are my dads, some are a friend of mines....but all are great finds....
Soldier ID Tag... 
Soldier ID Tag... 
Piece of a spur 
Hard to see in picture, but there is a bullet turned around backwards and mashed in to this spencer casing...Pretty cool... 
Carved Bullet? 
Carved Bullet Again? 
Found this nice point while digging a target.. 
Saddle Shield 
Part of an old clock 
Here are some pictures of finds from different days at this camp...some finds are mine, some are not. There were also a couple days where we found lots of just bullets and I didn't take pictures....Here ya go! 
I can't wait to go back...I was planing on going this afternoon after work, but it is cold and raining....I guess I'll have to wait... 
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| Tn Dirt Digger |
Great finds Cody!!!
George |
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| CenterHit |
Keep it up! Looks like your doing a great job. Congrats on
all these finds. |
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| Erle from Va. |
Some Killer finds there my friend...Go back to were you found the sling buckles, there should be another bat wing and possibly two belt adjusters there as well. If the hole rig is there there should also be two iron swivel hooks one for each belt. I would also go back and dig every thing were you found the belt keepers, at least within a ten to fourteen foot radious. Looks as though you have a lot of camp drops or re-supply area were stuff was stripped and dropped.Sorry, I would have to say you ID badge is more like a RR baggage tag or hotel tag of the sort. But definetely not an ID badge. You and your Dad have got a very nice site and I would slow way down and dig almost every signal in the area your finding the plates. You also got a nice keg spiqout that looks to be complete. Once again congrats on an Awsome post and some killer relics! HH, Erle from Va. |
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| crashbro17x |
Re: Some Killer finds there my friend...
Hey thanks. I've had some folks look at the badge and they said that it was definately an ID badge...It says "to identify me", and "notify my family", and it is a life insurance company's name on it...so I figure that it is some sort of ID tag....No matter what it is...it is still a very cool find...I'll take ten more of them if they keep letting me dig them!
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| Ian |
It's not necessarily an ID badge. But, it is a tag for the Insurance Company to ID the person who is wearing it. Insurance companies started using these around the 1920s.
Here's more info: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/onceandfu.../secd/case2-artifacts/photo1.html |
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| crashbro17x |
Sweet! Hey thanks for digging up some more info for me...
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| RadGpz |
@&*(@&#@$#%@*&!! thats all i got ta say congrats man ! | ||