US GENERAL SERVICE EAGLE COAT BUTTON RECOVERED ON THE KLINGEL FARM, GETTYSBURG

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Item Code: 173-2500

Chocolate patina with soiling and some verdigris to face. Some damage to back with shank missing. BM:  EXTRA QUALITY.

Recovered from the Klingel Farm by local Gettysburg resident John Cullison, who excavated relics on the field from 1935-1959. Cullison sold his collection to the famed Gettysburg Rosensteel family, who held the primary collection of Gettysburg artifacts.

The Klingel Farm is a small, fifteen acre farm located south of town along the east side of the Emmitsburg Road. Owned during the battle by Daniel and Hannah Klingel. Fierce fighting took place around the farm on July 2nd, 1863, the area where CS General Barksdale made his famous charge.

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