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 Blue and Grey
My Artefacts
The following artefacts are all part of my collection.
During the Battle of Gettysburg this piece of Confederate Artillery Shrapnel was fired at the Union lines it was recovered from the Ground at Gettysburg in 1952
An 1864 Confederate States Dollar bill.
A Civil War Gospel tract (The Pearl of Great Price), dated in the front page as being from 1846.
Two belt rivets, dug at Gettysburg, cant be sure but my guess is that they are Confederate.
 All the basic Civil War Bullets and a few really rare ones.
 Above My Gettysburg cabinet contains a wide range of Bullets and some other items including percussion caps and an Artillery friction primer a small L shaped device used to fire a cannon.
Here are just a few of the bullets from Gettysburg that are in this display.
.69 Caliber Ball with added .36 buckshot.
A rare Confederate .54 caliber Selma Arsenal, Alabama.
A Union Cavalry .54 Flat base Burnside.  A nice little display of Bullets recovered from Battle and Skirmish sites in Virginia, also included is a Union Eagle button recovered from the battle site of Cold Harbour.
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A Union Eagle coat button recovered from Gettysburg in the Area close to the round top it most likely belonged to a soldier from v corps of the Union Army.
Knapsack hooks
Small trouser buttons, probably Confederate. In many ways these were similar to the buttons that we use today.
This is a really beautiful large Union eagle I button. The I stood for Infantry. Other eagle buttons have an A in the centre for artillery or D for dragoon or C for cavalry. This is a called a non-dug button as it was never in the ground, but was taken from a uniform at the end of the Civil War.
Soldiers played various games in the camps, marbles was very popular. These are two marbles recovered from a Civil War site.
