Wow...that's a Lot of stuff (elements) on ONE button!  I don't know
anything about Civil War relics...or buttons...but can't pass up a
challenge to search the net. heh heh.

Have you checked this site?:
http://www.relicman.com/butc.htm

And then you could always post your query on such a relic hunters forum as
this:
http://www.treasurenet.com/forum/relichunting/archives/19990906/

I see several button ID postings here...



At 03:17 PM 6/30/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>If anyone has any information that could help in identifying the symbols on
>a button found during a recent project, it would be appreciated.  I have a
>photograph of the button and a sketch of the symbols and will be more than
>happy to email them to you at your request.
>
>During Phase II excavations at site 8ES2769 (Billingsley Tract) at Naval Air
>Station Pensacola, Florida, a machine-stamped copper button (approx. 1.5 cm
>in diameter) was recovered.  The manufacture technique dates this button
>from the mid- to late-nineteenth century.  This button depicts an unusual
>group of symbols on the face, which consists of a variety of elements such
>as a two-story building that appears to be a church, a floating two-masted
>boat, water ripples, a clump of grass and/or reeds, a snake, a stylized
>fish, possibly two butterflies, stars, circles, two stylized torches, and
>three chain links depicted horizontally.  Other geometric symbols depicted
>near the edge of the button are not easily discernable.
>
>The time periods represented at the site are mainly early
>American/antebellum, Civil War, and reconstruction into the twentieth
>century.  A portion of the site was once a part of the
>mid-nineteenth-century Warrington Village, which was constructed around the
>Navy Yard at Pensacola.  Most of the village was destroyed during the Civil
>War and never rebuilt.  In 1906, a hurricane struck the area and any
>structures left standing were completely razed after the storm destruction
>was cleared away.  In the 1930s, two-story brick officer's quarters were
>constructed in this area and remain today.
>
>Cyndi Sims
>Panamerican Consultants, Inc.
>Tampa, Florida
>(813) 884-6351
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