I am curious about the different letters in each button, Looks like an I.R.D.&C. , Maybe Infantry or some thing, I could guess on the rest. But am not sure. Have you found a link to indentify them?smg
Oh... 4 or 5 different forts. I thought you had gotten those all from the same soldier's uniform. I was gonna say... how deep was he buried? ...or how deep did you bury him?
J/K ya Steve (you can retain a smile now). Very nice collection you got going, man.
I got me a little collection going myself (I gotta take a new pic and post it soon). To me, buttons hold the slot right next to them good old coins!
Krom ["Kewl reminder of memories"] (... diggin' coins, that is. )
They're not exclusively military... just my favorites:
(BTW... it says I modified your post. I just wanted to change the "n" you typed in Krom, to "m". Didn't mean to look like Richard Burton in "1984" )
Thanks for the correction - soon as I hit the post button I saw my mistake.
Buttons of all kinds are fun to dig. I took all the non-civil war eagle buttons I had - like the one in your pic lower center - and put them on a display board. Steve in so az