civil war

I live in North Atlanta. Most of the Civil War relic locations that you can hunt around Atlanta are creek banks and in the creeks because the developers have no use for creeks since they cannot build near them. Fall is coming, snakes will be going underground so time to hit the creeks. I am...

Hey y'all, I am new to the Savannah, Pooler, Bloomingdale, GA area. Spent most of my detecting days in northern VA finding Civil War relics and wanted to know how the relic detecting is down south. I used a White's Prizm II for years and just recently made the switch to a Garrett AT Pro and I...

I came across this map legend for a Civil War area in NW Atlanta area. Dept of Interior, national park service, American Battle Field Protection program. then the map has a red outline for core area and black outline for study area. does this mean these areas are off limits to metal...

this question is for someone who has studied Civil War troop movements. In moving toward the enemy would troops move in a ravine that is parallel to the direction of the fight or on either side of the ravine?

Last year I switched to 100% civil war hunting in the Atlanta areas. Lots of careful and detailed research produce four proven sites and permissions. 2 are on private property with permissions and 2 area on city pars along Peachtree creek which are well known to civil war relic hunters from the...

This was found in a site of a proven Union field medical area. it came out of the ground totally rounded and encrusted as seen in first picture. Part of the encrusted end popped off in handling before I use electrolysis on it. I am not sure at all what it is. It is ferrous and is attracted to a...

Probably the most detailed document on Civil War logistics I have ever read. 436 pages long. https://transportation.army.mil/History/PDF/Peninsula%20Campaign/Rodney%20Lackey%20Article_1.pdf

Today I was hunting civil war relics at an area of Peachtree Creek where a field hospital was located. The temperature was 94 degrees and the humidity was 47% and I was hot. These were very similar conditions to the conditions back on July 20, 1864. It was very humid and very hot. It is hard to...

I was watching a youtube video of Britain's Depths of History and he at a site digging lots of shell and cannon ball fragments and some fuses. But as you can imagine, the fuses were rusted and covered in dirt and was hard to tell what they were. Here is an old video made by Aqua Chigger that...

I have a permission on about 1 acre site that was the location of very heavy CW battle area in Atlanta. These are very rare and hard to come by. I have the Nox 800. Of course I am going to hunt this area very slow. It is also has a very small stream that I will hunt also. which coil would you...

Ok so I am going on a creek dig this saturday and sunday. I need some advice. This is my first real creek dig, It’s in a CW skirmish area. It’s supposed to rain on friday so i’m hoping the water won’t be to high. Let me know what i should take. the creek bed is mostly sand not bedrock! Thanks!

The remote prospect that I will find a CSA belt buckle and maybe a few 3 ringers. But the belt buckle is what keeps me going. I find one of those and I will consider my long participation with this great hobby complete. I have done a lot of research and have 3-4 very good permissions so I am...

Alright so I need some information on rivers. Are they free ground to detect? If not what can i do to detect there.

I am hunting civil war areas in metro Atlanta and from north Atlanta up to Chattanooga, TN along the I-75 route. Economic growth in Georgia since the Civil War has caused a lot of good Civil War hunting sites to be come polluted with other metal trash since 1864. I suspect this is true of PA...

Found this cast iron crank about 8 inches down on my Civil War permission. It fits a 1" shaft of some sort. I don't know what time period this came from. Of course I would like it to be a crank on a Civil War cannon but that might be a stretch. It was almost totally encrusted with iron rust...

This was found today in one of my Civil War hunt areas. I don't have a clue to what it is. Any ideas?

I have a new permission of about 3 acres along a creek that through my research indicate several Union divisions went through this area of Georgia. It runs along a creek for about 700 yards where Union forces traveled. The owner showed me three terraces in his back yard starting about 20 feet...

I have been using Civil War Diaries, regiment and brigade journals and books and Civil War era newspapers for my research. I find a wealth of information that gets me "near" the location of camps and skirmishes. But that is just the problem. Near covers a wide area of many acres to even...

seems like things never change. Hard headed presidents override plans of their military. From the Cleveland Daily Leader, July 27, 1864. Look at the wasteful results in terms of killed and wounded. Lincoln was under a lot of political pressure at this time and would have probably lost his...

This is how they got things across rivers. They were not dummies back in the Civil War. Just think about it. In the summer of 1864 General Sherman commanded 100,000 troops and moved them from Tennessee down through georgia all the while confederate generals Johnston and Hood did their best to...