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OK! My best find of the day!.........

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Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"

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I didn't mention it in the other post so I could clean it, and look it up in my book, and
I had to be sure of my ID. I have been looking for this Civil War button for years! Finally a Michigan State Seal Staff Button! YEEEE HAAAA!!!! When I seen what I had I went over to Shawano and I held both arms in the air in celebration!!!!!


Here it is fresh from the ground!

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Here it is cleaned! Boy am I happy! :)

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Are those buttons rare? I guess they must be if took awhile for you to find one. Congrats!!
 
If ya would have looked there first ya could have used that year to hunt something else :rofl:

Cool find....congrats and don't forget that water fountain those VFW people were standing beside.
 
A super duper relic digger told me that the MI state seal button is way harder to find than many confederate buttons. Also you see many other Yankee buttons found, but not many of these. Just think how many trips I made south and I found it here! :lol:
 
Before I left OK and moved up to MI back in 2002, one of the guys in my club here in OK gave me some info on CW stuff for MI. I had pictures of the MI State Seal button, as well as a couple specialty button for the two sharpshooter regiments that MI produced. Do some research on those buttons in a CW button book. One of them had a wildcat on it, not sure about the other.

One of the reasons why MI state seal buttons are so rare to find, is that there weren't any CW engagements in MI. Most of the "lost" buttons are going to be in the theaters of action where MI troops fought, and the travel routes that those units travelled on. Another reason, and I'm not sure on this, may be that the eastern states produced more troops than MI did, as MI probably didn't have a very large population base to recruit troops from, compared to the eastern states.

HH from Allen in OK
 
Jist didnt wont 2 ster up a beez nest! :lol:
 
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