Another button! experts???

[bigboar]

I found this one tonight about a foot and a half from an 1868 III cent piece. I looks to read "Rich Orange Warranted" with a dot between the words and it looks like it has 3 circles going around the shank. This one also looks to be brass. Any help appreciated!!!

[OZARKS]

http://www.first-tennessee.co.uk/articles/uniform.htm


Brown Jean
Civilian Tail Coat, 9 button front with two interior pockets [one on each breast], red & white striped calico cloth lining 3/4" wide red band around collar Brass Coin Buttons 'Warranted Rich Orange' backmark 6 Tenn

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedi...-button-set-of

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedi...il-war-not-dug

[BUZZ WILSON]

Your right again OZARK. How do you do that?

[bigboar]

hmm, that is cool! Thanks O! I assume it doesnt mean it is military since that says 6th Tennessee wore civilian jackets, just that it could be?

[OZARKS]

Yeah they probably were Military worn, just not military issued. Although I am not an expert

The men were good-sized, healthy, and well-clothed, but without any attempt at uniformity in colour or cut; but nearly all were dressed in either grey or brown coats and felt hats. I was told that even if a regiment was clothed in proper uniform by the Government , it would be parti-coloured again in a week, as the soldiers preferred wearing the coarse home-spun jackets and trousers made by their mothers and sisters at home. The Generals very wisely allow them to please themselves in this respect, and insist only that their arms and accoutrements being kept in proper order." (Fremantle 1864: 155):


Each soldier could have received about 1.8 jackets over two years of service....

The wearing of civilian trousers in some shade of brown jeans cloth is probably the safest bet for western theatre Confederates.

Contemporary diaries/memoirs list brown jean as the most common civilian work-trouser of the time --- often requested by the troops from home.