Confederate Artillery Button, recovered at Amelia Virginia

This is another item being offered, it is an excavated coat-size, 22mm, Confederate Artillery button. It is the block style "A” that denotes the artillery branch of Confederate service and would be considered as a local. It has the tin back with shank, which is rusted, typical of these local buttons, but it still has the original shank. This button was recovered at Amelia, Virginia.

Amelia Court House was a critical, though brief, stop for Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in April 1865, as they attempted to reunite after the fall of Richmond and Petersburg, but the failure to find expected food supplies at the train depot led to a delay and the eventual loss of the battle at Sayler's Creek. The county itself was also a site for skirmishes, including the Battle of Namozine Church and Battle of Amelia Springs, as Union forces pursued the retreating Confederates.

This button has a slight push on one corner and still has quite a bit of the original dirt still on it.  Everything is tight and it has a great untouched patina on the face. It would go very well with any Civil War collection. It comes in the glass top display case pictured.