Southern / Border State Buttons

Southern State Buttons

More Great stuff to come!!!!

Alabama

AB7A / AB202A1 - Blank with a depressed channel (Local production most likely by Casimir Rouyer - New Orleans Manufacture)

Arkansas

AK1A1 - "HORSTMANN & ALLIEN / N.Y." dm.

Florida

I currently do not have a Florida button example as I am searching for the FL2 "Cherokee Rose" button. If you have a non-dug FL2 and are interested in selling it, please feel free to contact me at rssll@hotmail.com.

Georgia

GA2A - "* W.G. MINTZER / PHIL^A 1861." rmdc with a stippled channel

Louisiana

LA10 (Variant) / LA245A1 - See below

This solid cast Louisiana Pelican button is the rarest of the Pelican buttons. It is listed as No. LA245A1 in Warren Tice's button book, Uniform Buttons of the United States 1776-1865. It is patterned like the LA 2 button in Alphaeus Albert's Button book and also is similar to the LA 10.

Only a few of these solid cast Louisiana Pelican buttons are known to exist and all except this particular button, which was excavated in New Orleans, have been dug in Virginia. This button was found near downtown New Orleans in August 2003 when a bottle digger was digging privies where they were tearing down the St. Joseph’s housing project. It did not come out of a privy, but was found on top of the ground while the digger was walking back to his car at the end of the day! I obtained the button from the digger.

This solid cast Pelican button was most likely locally made for the unit (perhaps by a jeweler because of the fine detail) and this one unit was probably the only unit that ever had them. Based on that assumption, I would also assume this unit fought in VA early in the war since that is the only other place the button has been found.

Mississippi

MP8A / MP245A1 - Blank with a depressed channel (Local production most likely by Casimir Rouyer - New Orleans Manufacture)

North Carolina

NC8A / - "S. A. MYERS / RICHMOND VA." rmdc

South Carolina

SC17A / SC286A1 - “EXTRA GOLD QUAL^I” dm with a lion above

Tennessee

TN4B / TN200B1 - Blank with a depressed channel (Local production most likely by Casimir Rouyer - New Orleans Manufacture)

Texas

TX17A / TX234A1 - "HYDE & GOODRICH / NEW ORLEANS" dm

Dug Port Hudson and pictured in "Historic Treasures of the American Civil War", by William A. Spedale. Reference page No. 83.

TX26A / TX256A - Blank (T.E. Miller made button)

Virginia

VA20A2 / VA264A1 - "* RICHMOND VA * / W WILDT & SON" rmdc. All "D's" in backmark are reversed.

According to Tice, "Both rare and unusal, this is one of only three true staff -type buttons made by the Conferates." This button was classified incorrectly with northern-made specimens in Albert's Button Book.

Cherokee Indian Nations

JOHNSON'S 813A / UM248A1 - "* RICH GOLD * / COLOUR" rm.

The button, though not a true confederate state button is one I love due to it's association with the Cherokee Indians and the Confederacy. I am of Cherokee descent and my family is registered in the National Role for Cherokee Indians.

This type of button is featured in an article in NSTCW Vol. XV No. 3, "A Confederate Cherokee Rose", by Dan Binder. This button is also listed in "North Carolina Civil War Buttons" by C. Terry Teff on page 57.

Border State Buttons

Kentucky

KY1 (Unlisted) / KY200D1 - "*SUPERIOR / QUALITY*" rmdc in a stippled channel

Maryland

MD11A1 / MD200A2 - "CANFIELD. BRO. & CO. / BALTIMORE." dm

Missouri

MO1 (Unlisted) / MO200A (Unlisted) - "* EXTRA / QUALITY *" dm with small depressed letters inside two rings of dots

This is the face of MO1 / MO200A but the backmark for a MO205A3. This backmark is not listed in Albert's for Missouri buttons.

HOME