(08-12-2014 09:37 PM)IndianaBones Wrote: [ -> ]thank you for the info .
Mr Joe, did you ever get info on that awesome button. i would love to know the history behind the 71st , i did a little looking into them, but not sure if i had the right group. i was way off the first shot 
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very interested in there history and activities during the civil war.
Here's a good link with detailed info, Bones...
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/71st_New_York_Infantry
Joe
(08-13-2014 06:12 PM)NjNyDigger Wrote: [ -> ] (08-12-2014 09:37 PM)IndianaBones Wrote: [ -> ]thank you for the info .
Mr Joe, did you ever get info on that awesome button. i would love to know the history behind the 71st , i did a little looking into them, but not sure if i had the right group. i was way off the first shot ...
very interested in there history and activities during the civil war.
Here's a good link with detailed info, Bones...
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/71st_New_York_Infantry
Joe
Very cool, i had came across them while researching them yesterday. that is a sweet button, it`s cool to find an old button, but to be able to find one with connections to a specific group or regiment makes it all the more cool and special ...
very nice find indeed ....
(08-13-2014 06:23 PM)IndianaBones Wrote: [ -> ] (08-13-2014 06:12 PM)NjNyDigger Wrote: [ -> ] (08-12-2014 09:37 PM)IndianaBones Wrote: [ -> ]thank you for the info .
Mr Joe, did you ever get info on that awesome button. i would love to know the history behind the 71st , i did a little looking into them, but not sure if i had the right group. i was way off the first shot ...
very interested in there history and activities during the civil war.
Here's a good link with detailed info, Bones...
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/71st_New_York_Infantry
Joe
Very cool, i had came across them while researching them yesterday. that is a sweet button, it`s cool to find an old button, but to be able to find one with connections to a specific group or regiment makes it all the more cool and special ...
very nice find indeed ....
That's why I said your finds beat mine by a mile, earlier in the thread. It's not that they're better, but, with relic pieces (which you've been predominately digging), there's more of a pedigree, a story, a background on the piece. I LOVE coins, especially silver, and will NEVER tire of pulling up an oldie, however, the relics (at least to me) are more personal in nature. To think a soldier wore that button I found on his uniform 150 years ago is astounding. Boggles the mind. Was it lost? Was the soldier injured? Was he a big shot in the regiment? The questions never end. That's why I envy the finds that guys like you, Ron, Deathray & others make on these relic pieces
Joe