jerrycoastalnc
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Not very often do you find an item to learn later of within hours of when it was lost. The artillery hat pin is from the North Carolina 36th light artillery. After the fall of Fort Fisher on January 15, 1865, next morning several nearby forts were evacuated. On this evacuation route I found this pin. This retreat was thru woods because the Cape Fear River was full of Union troops. The retreat was to Fort Anderson. The pin still has a nail thru the "6" that kept it from flopping.