Civil War Era Minié Ball Found On The Surface! Moment of Discovery Relic Hunting

In this long-anticipated presentation, I proudly share one of the most exciting acquisitions in my lifetime of research and collecting.
A number of buttons are examined and discussed, with the emphasis being on a circa 1800 U.S. Army high level officer button. At present only eight other examples are known to exist in prominent private collections.
The image in the thumbnail is presented for context and depicts General Peter Gansevoort. The portrait was painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1794 and illustrates the type of uniform this button would have adorned. Below is a link to Gen. Gansevoort’s Wikipedia page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_G...
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[@RODEHAWGKENNEL]

Flooding can bring them up 😊

[@Yeahok-pc2jd]

The The River?

[@CollectorChronicles]

Yuuup… -the Ol’ Mighty Mississip’. ☺️

[@RODEHAWGKENNEL]

Very cool 😎