Brass U.S. Infantry Officer’s “I” cuff button. Button retains shank and some of its gilt. Relic shows light surface oxidation. Recovered from the Sherfy Farm by local resident and relic hunter John Cullison, who excavated the battlefield from 1935 to 1959, and sold this item to the Rosensteel Family collection of Gettysburg.

The Sherfy Farm is located on the Emmitsburg Road about a mile south of town. At the time of the battle the fifty acre farm was owned by Reverend Joseph Sherfy and included the famous Peach Orchard to the south of Wheatfield Road as well as both Big and Little Round Tops and the Devil's Den. The house is the original house built in the 1840's and still displays bullet holes in its brickwork, signs of the fierce fighting that took place around it on July 2nd and 3rd, 1863. The current barn replaced the original, which had been used by the Confederates as a field hospital but had burned during the battle.

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