Finally Found a Civil War Button While Metal Detecting

[Reconstructed Rebel]

So was I ever surprised when this Civil War eagle button came out of the ground of an old farm I was hitting yesterday.

Thought you might enjoy this quote from a talk given after the war- proof perhaps that you should not have been so surprised to find your eagle! Keep searching, I hope you find more.

During the Civil War nearly two and three-quarters millions of men were mustered to defend the Union. At its close eleven hundred thousand men were mustered out. For years after we saw men ploughing in the blue clothes they once wore in battle.

Source: page 451

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