Lots of Lead from the Shenandoah Valley! ***VIDEO*** LIVE DIGS

[Old Virginia]

Finally finished editing some video from a Civil War battlefield hunt. Thanks for looking.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1ZVrKVKMjU[/video]

 

[sddavid]

Looks like you did pretty good, congrats

 

[nam1969]

really enjoyed the video. You are so fortunate to do the kind of detecting you are doing.

 

[Old Virginia]

Looks like you did pretty good, congrats

Thanks!

 

[Old Virginia]

really enjoyed the video. You are so fortunate to do the kind of detecting you are doing.

Glad you liked it. Yes, the landowner allows me on that site once a year - every Oct. or Nov. I've been hunting there 5 years and it always produces.

 

[GeorgeinSC]

My great Grandfather was wounded in the Battle of Piedmont (aka New Hope) They removed his right let just below the Knee. Lots of history in that valley.

 

[Old Virginia]

My great Grandfather was wounded in the Battle of Piedmont (aka New Hope) They removed his right let just below the Knee. Lots of history in that valley.

"Lots of history in that valley." Sure is my friend. What unit did your GGF serve in?

 

[GeorgeinSC]

Information I was able to find says 36th Regiment Virginia Infantry. He grew up in the Staunton area and he and three of his brothers joined at the same time. I was told that they were hungry as every unit that came thru their area took all the food they had. Apparently he was not in the CSA very long or very far from home when he was wounded. Shot in the right foot and they took his leg off just below the knee. My Grandmother had his belt buckle and the buttons off his uniform and I only ever saw them one time and they were in like new condition Do not know what happened to the buttons

 

[Old Virginia]

Information I was able to find says 36th Regiment Virginia Infantry. He grew up in the Staunton area and he and three of his brothers joined at the same time. I was told that they were hungry as every unit that came thru their area took all the food they had. Apparently he was not in the CSA very long or very far from home when he was wounded. Shot in the right foot and they took his leg off just below the knee. My Grandmother had his belt buckle and the buttons off his uniform and I only ever saw them one time and they were in like new condition Do not know what happened to the buttons

I've hunted property very near that battlefield and recovered a few minie balls and shell frags. My GG Grandfather was also wounded at Piedmont. He was with the 45th Virginia. He became a POW and taken to Camp Morton in Indiana. He was later transferred to Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond in a prisoner exchange. He died there in March of 1865 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in a common grave with 2 other men; marked only by a number on a stone.