Well, one of my detecting buddies(Blind Squirrel) and I went to our civil war era hunting site about a week ago. This area that we hunt has been hunted for 25 years, so the pickings are pretty slim. Normally we find Minnie balls, shell casings and other artifacts, but this time we only found 1 45-70 rim fire shell casing and no round balls or minnies. There were 3 eagle buttons found by us though, I found 2. Even these two are a little different in design and probably a few years apart. According to Albert's book, which my hunting buddy has, the one with the dent in the front was made about 1849 and the other was between 1850-65. It is always fun and exciting to dig an eagle button. I have found only 3 civil war or Indian war era eagle buttons now. It is always great to find these rare buttons and especially nice to be able to read the backmarks to date them.
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Civil War era Eagle Buttons
- Thread starter shafer44
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Blind Squirrel
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Good finds there shafer44!. The next time we go there you might find your first pre-1900 coin? I know that I didn't get them all. Best of luck and...
Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel
Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel
Thanks Revier, The buttons were cleaned by me. The one with the dent, you could only see the tip of the wing on the left when dug out. I don't know what was on it, but it was black and really crusted. Some soaking and a little electrolysis and then they cleaned up pretty easy and good.
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calabash digger
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very nice!