Mike Bearden
Member
Didn't get permission to hunt this site until after lunch today because the owner of the property drove up about the time I was leaving the old school grounds. He lived across the highway from the school and was curious when he saw me detecting and drove over to see what I was up to 
He said that when he purchased his property at auction in 1919 that the county clerk had told him a story of about 20 Confederate soldiers that once camped on the farm for 3 day's. I asked him if he knew where they might have camped and he said SURE ... he pointed towards a big pond and said they camped on the bottom side under them big ole Oaks.
I followed him to his place and he asked me to come inside and meet his wife. She was a pleasant old soul and poured me a glass of tea, she then asked me if I ever really find anything with "that thing" and I went thru the usual explanation of what I like to hunt for, coins, relics and so on. She grabbed my hand and walked me into a hallway and pointed at a OLD picture of the farm ... it was a picture taken while the soldiers were there. According to her, the previous owner of the place was the last of his generation and had left it and all of his family portraits along with furniture etc.
Anyway, I went outside and got geared up. I walked to the bottom side of the pond and fired up the X-Terra in all metal.
Started pulling silver hits right away, dimes, quarters, a old knife handle with some kind of engraving on it. I pulled a kids toy car that was elbow deep. The brass thing looks like a funnel with a hinge on it that sill works, it's the 2nd. one of these I've found in this area. The buckle is silver plated and it was right on the edge of the oaks. About dead center of the oaks I pulled 3 bullets and the rivet. The bullets were around 9" deep and gave a nice " dig me sound", the rivet was only 4" deep and sounded like a coin on edge .. real good with the coil tilted up.
The halfs were found not far from where I found the buffs, close to a thorn patch where he said there used to be a pier that rotted away.
Don't think the soldiers left much behind but it was worth a shot and all the silver was nice to dig. I offered whatever pickings the folks wanted out of today's hunt and the gentleman reached down and picked up one of the bullets and said he would put it on his mantle for a keep sake said he had gallons of silver dollars and halfs already.
They told me to come visit and detect anytime I wanted, I thanked them and said I would do just that !
It was a GOOD DAY of detecting and meeting some nice folks.
H.H.
Mike
He said that when he purchased his property at auction in 1919 that the county clerk had told him a story of about 20 Confederate soldiers that once camped on the farm for 3 day's. I asked him if he knew where they might have camped and he said SURE ... he pointed towards a big pond and said they camped on the bottom side under them big ole Oaks.
I followed him to his place and he asked me to come inside and meet his wife. She was a pleasant old soul and poured me a glass of tea, she then asked me if I ever really find anything with "that thing" and I went thru the usual explanation of what I like to hunt for, coins, relics and so on. She grabbed my hand and walked me into a hallway and pointed at a OLD picture of the farm ... it was a picture taken while the soldiers were there. According to her, the previous owner of the place was the last of his generation and had left it and all of his family portraits along with furniture etc.
Anyway, I went outside and got geared up. I walked to the bottom side of the pond and fired up the X-Terra in all metal.
Started pulling silver hits right away, dimes, quarters, a old knife handle with some kind of engraving on it. I pulled a kids toy car that was elbow deep. The brass thing looks like a funnel with a hinge on it that sill works, it's the 2nd. one of these I've found in this area. The buckle is silver plated and it was right on the edge of the oaks. About dead center of the oaks I pulled 3 bullets and the rivet. The bullets were around 9" deep and gave a nice " dig me sound", the rivet was only 4" deep and sounded like a coin on edge .. real good with the coil tilted up.
The halfs were found not far from where I found the buffs, close to a thorn patch where he said there used to be a pier that rotted away.
Don't think the soldiers left much behind but it was worth a shot and all the silver was nice to dig. I offered whatever pickings the folks wanted out of today's hunt and the gentleman reached down and picked up one of the bullets and said he would put it on his mantle for a keep sake
said he had gallons of silver dollars and halfs already.They told me to come visit and detect anytime I wanted, I thanked them and said I would do just that !
It was a GOOD DAY of detecting and meeting some nice folks.
H.H.
Mike