**Confederate Flat Button**TREBLE GILT STAN d"

[wbindia]

My digging buddies returned back to the site yesterday where I dug the Yankee Belt plate two weeks. No additional plates this time, but I dig dig two fired enfiled bullets, and my first flat button from the site, which may be Confederate, baeed upon the writing on the back, which states; " TREBLE GILT STAND d".

According to relicman.com, the majoirty of buttons, with back marks, TREBLE GILT, RICH GILT, etc, were of English manufacturer forigin or the Southern troops. And since the site we've been detecting was a known battlefiled, once can only deduice that this button more than likley belonged to a Southern trooper.

Unfortuntley the face of the button has no discernable markings, but the back mark is clearly discernable with gilt still entact. H.H...

Best-

Wayne

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[Minieball]

Yes it could have CS usage but these buttons were heavily imported for years prior to the CW and used for civilian clothing. A nice find though!

I'm in Winchester myself....are you close by?

Best,

Todd H

 

[wbindia]

Yes it could have CS usage but these buttons were heavily imported for years prior to the CW and used for civilian clothing. A nice find though!

I'm in Winchester myself....are you close by?

Best,

Todd H

Hi Todd, Actualy I live in Alexandria, but my two detecting buddies and I detect primarily in the western part of the state. Thanks for informing me these buttons were used prior to the civil war. What leads us to believe these were used by Southern troopers is that we have been searching a prior battlefiled site. Where these flat buttons were recovered were where the confederate line would have been during this particular battle. Conversely, many fired .58s have been recovered in the same area where several flat buttons were recovered, leading us to "speculate" that these were from the confederate forces.

Best-

Wayne

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