{"id":3347,"date":"2020-11-15T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2020-11-30T12:59:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T17:59:11","slug":"excelsior-brigade-was-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/?p=3347","title":{"rendered":"Excelsior Brigade Was Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The mason Chris made a nice find of a Union staff officer gold plated button from the Excelsior Brigade<\/a>. That brigade had just lost over half its members at the battle of Gettysburg in the summer before coming here to the Mine Run campaign. Chris polished up the button and gave it back to me along with a Confederate sniper bullet he found. Evidently what I originally was told were mounds from an old pipeline were actually trenches and artillery revetments at the highest point on the farm. The trench line goes back quite a distance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n