I don't know what else to say but you two have made me happier than a pig in mud

Sons of Confederate veterans Alabama boy here I'd love to have that CSA button I live in jasper Alabama the Yankees came through here during Wilson's raid we find all kinds of stuff like this in our fields we live on the same farm that's been in our family for over 6 generations thank yall for taking the time to show us this amazing collection it's a amazing feeling holding something 160 years old

Thank you all for taking the time to put this together. Truly memorable.

My words can add nothing to the tributes and acclamations already posted on this astounding documentation of such an amazing collection. If I could post a million likes it would be well deserved and fitting as a measure of the superb quality of the contents of this content. Thank you again sir!

If ever a video illustrated the phrase “like a kid in a candy store” this was it! Your excitement was infectious and I loved the unwrapping the buckles segment. Thanks for sharing a genuine once in a lifetime experience. Andy

Awesome collection and very rare items and a lot of history

Not only can I thank you and Mud Duck but as well as the Ol' Timer who found it all and the LUCKY guy that it was gifted to for sharing all of those TREASURES with us!!!!!!! Never has happened before and doubt it happens again!!!! FIRE IS LIT!!!!!!

An old collection of that quantity and quality still intact from that long ago…incredible. And Mudduck hit it on the head…50 years makes all the difference! They are not found in that condition anymore. Thank you guys for posting! God bless!

Incredible!!!! Relics like these can still be found but not as easily as it was back in this guy’s heyday!

Jaw dropping! Thanks for sharing!!

We as enthusiasts have had our lives enlightened and enriched by what you and Mud Duck have shared with us. This collection has created more questions for me than we'll ever get answers to. I'm so inspired by your work. Please continue to share your digging adventures with us so that we may learn more about our country's history.

Thanks, Walker, for sharing this huge collection. As an aside, the history teacher in the newspaper clip was the reason i was not allowed to keep the shells I would find. Back in the day, my father was a state trooper working hanover and knew the gentleman and the story about that exploding shell.

Thanks Walker! What an amazing collection and thanks for sharing it with everyone.

Makes my heart pound ❤️👍🦀

Love the patina on those babies. Some look like they could have been in a fire

Speechless!

The buckles with the Star on it is a Texas plate. One of my favorites. Awesome.

thank you so much to all involved in this amazing collection i've been detecting just over a year and have found a few union pieces that are in this collection im truly blown away with the success that i have had in such a short time just yesterday i found a sling buckle and had no idea what it was till i found the videos on this collection thank you

Great series, unbelievable, you need to put the owner in contact with the Gettysburg Museum of History, Eric would love this

Wow, very incredible collection!!!!!!

I gotta watch that again!

All these collection videos have been a Big Treat. Thank you Good Sirs

Real nice collection of civil war relics. Thanks for sharing . Herr dave blackburn

I agreed with what you said. Because you're absolutely right imagine how hard it Was for a young man from the state of alabama who had been in the army for only five or six years and then all of a sudden , His state leaves and everyone is taking sides These buttons help tell the story of thousands of young men from both sides and it was like that here in TX I've read reports of texas troops showing up with Civilian rifles and shotguns and wearing the same boots and clothing they used to round up cattle

Dang he sure had very interesting cool relics much obliged for sharing 👍🐾🦊🇮🇹🇺🇲

What another amazing part of that collection. Man, that would have been so awesome to dig all those buttons and buckles! Thanks for sharing Walker.

What a collection! I have a Louisiana Tiger Rosette with the Pelican which is one of my best finds. I have never seen it anywhere else. I also have a Connecticut button. I have a Pennsylvania National Guard Rosette. My friend found that brass item that was at the top of the pole where they flew the flag. It has a name but I forget it. He found it where Stonewall Jackson camped before he crossed over the Blue Ridge from the battle he just won in the Shenandoah Valley. I can still hunt that property but it is very grown over right now and will always be grown over.

Awesome, Awesome, Awesome! What an incredible display of our American history. Thanks y’all, this was a wonderful series of American Civil War treasures

I asked in an earlier video about marbles. You indicated that there were some and I'm hoping you could include them in a future video. As a long time collector, I believe that myself and probably others could help identify those for you.

Walker There is nothing left to say about this amazing collection of American history. During each video I envisioned this treasure hunter as he dug each hole to unearth the spoils of a bloody war. I'm not going to tell you that your friend is lucky to have this collection but the word blessed does fill my mind. Thank you and Mud Duck for allowing us to partake in the unveiling of this treasure!

Absolutely staggering collection of Civil War history, you are doing a great job of showing it to all us envious enthusiasts...👍

Wow! I just kept putting my face closer to the screen just to get a better look!! lol Wow, OMG, Holy Cow, and on and on with the unbelievable relics you guys have put out here! WE do hope you keep following this collection and keep us up to date on where it's going and even IF it will be displayed somewhere. IN your estimation,,,what price would you put on it?? Millions? It's gotta be WAY up there based on some of the extremely rare items.. Thanks again for this once in a life time find and sharing with all of us your viewers!

What a video Walker. Thank you so much for sharing a incredible collection. Long gone are those days, what fun he must have had and he saved alot of history for us to gaze upon. Truly a great series you guys treated us to.

What a grand finale!!! We could hunt 5 life times from here out and never come close to finding a collection of that magnitude! Again thanks so much !! And your rite about the VA heat lol ! I’m an ole VA boy myself and I did get out for an hour last weekend and found my second cs buckle . A near perfect CS tongue and hope to find the wreath to it in my next hunts .

I think I have one box plate that has a name scratched in it? I bought it from someone 40 years ago. I need to dig it out, look it up, and research to see if I can identify him. I also found a bullet in the 70’s, partially flattened, with the guys name last name (Clyster). I never tried to look him up. It also has some Greek letters like a Fraternity would use. My coolest find was an ID ring I found in 2 pieces, both flattened out. It was a drummer boy from the Massachusetts volunteer militia I think he was 18 years old. It’s a miracle I found both pieces. Talking about a story. How and why was it cut in two and discarded? Did he get an injury on his hand so they had to cut it off? Nothing to mention his records. Thanks for sharing this amazing collection

Beautiful

My goodness what a collection it’s amazing to see these items l have never seen anything the like of l am pleased that l stumbled across your first video of the collection which we are all flabbergasted what we are seeing thank you again to you both take care thanks

Fascinating series, couldn't stop watching. The most interesting was the ammo box

Absolutely...MINDBLOWING!! I just can't wrap my head around how much is in this collection!!🤯

I look forward to every one of these that you post. The man who inherited all these relics is lucky to have friends like you and the guy who left him the relics! I just hope they get put somewhere where people can enjoy them instead of being locked away inside of an attic for only 1 person.

Plates, buttons, spurs & old coins, this episode obviously was my favorite! The Mississippi oval was my favorite plate made by E.Gaylord, a friend was detecting with me 10 years ago & found one of those

Thanks so much for making these videos, I've really enjoyed them it's truly is an amazing collection.. 👍👍👍

Thank you all very much! Fun to watch and just drink in that all these things belonged to individuals and represents such a turbulent time in our nation's history. Wow!!

Amazing! Thanks for sharing.

Wow!!! You guys have had, and I'm sure still having an great experience. Thanks for sharing these items with us.

What can I say that hasn't already been said. Amazing, and thanks for sharing!

Speechless. Thank you!

What a Fantastic Collection 👍

This series is museum quality. Would love to see all this in person.

AMAZING!! AMAZING!! AMAZING!!! Only disappointment was you shooing the cat away. Lotsa people like to see pets included.

For identifying any buttons, plates, etc etc. there's a 3 book boxed set of big hardbacks called The Civil War. One book is called Fighting Men of the Civil War. That book will show you w/pics every one of those. The set is written by William C. Davis. Love your videos, especially these of that killer collection! Oh yeah it identifies each relic w/pics, even explains alot of them

The confederate buckles and buttons I love those wishing I had some . Amazing just to be able to touch them .

what a beautiful bunch of buttons and plates! i thought that big 76 plate looked older than cw so i didi a search of just american plates and came up with an identical plate labelled "Lot 1353: WAR OF 1812 ARTILLERY MILITIA 7.6 SHAKO PLATE" from "Affiliated Auctions Realty LLC April 26, 2023 Tallahassee, FL, US" even if you never revisit this awesome collection you got to see and handle it. and many thanks for taking us along on the journey!!!

Good video.

I don't have a link to the video but about a year or two ago, the guy with the Green Mountain Metal Detecting channel found what looked like a 5th Corps badge at a homestead in the Vermont mountains. The only Vermont troops in 5th corps were sharpshooters. Brad ignored those of us in the comments section who thought it was a corp badge and insisted it was "horse tack". It was a 1-1/4 or 1-1/2" brass diamond with brazed loops on the back like a box plate. 😎👍

Anyone that is a fan of this could ask how anyone could have a collection like that my only comment is wow thank you for sharing this

Holy cow more !!! Love it all , hey man you headed to DIV in November ? Thi is John from DeepCreekLake

Millions of dollars an history that no one else has only now is it being shared with the world. This is crazy the person who collected this had access to them that no one else had. So that tells me he was rich to begin with an had a job to have access to this stuff because no normal person could put this together.

Beautiful button collection. I have a few myself but not in that quanity. I also have a hessian button which I believe we used Hessian fighters way back when.

And I thought my dress blue buttons and buckles were nice, very nice unbelievable collection.

That’s what’s up Yo! How long is it going to be for the shock and awe to wear off for you and Mudduck? You two are such a hoot teasing one another, such a great tag team! I’m glad ya’ll explained the letters on the buttons, never realized just how many different one there were. Be nice to see you back in the trenches Yo! Keep walking and digging!

Mississippi buckle is killer ! I would die if I dug a MS buckle!

What disposition did the owner want for his collection after his death? I do hope nothing gets split up. Museums & local historical society are notorious for selling off priceless items, or having them mysteriously walk off. At the least, shunted away in basement boxes where the public never accesses. I have my 2x gfathers (Union) diary, & as old as I am (had this thing most of my life, longer than he owned it), I'm still unsure who to best leave it to. Thanks for this record of it all. Incredible.

I would love to dig a Mississippi button ! My grandfather fought in the 36th. MS infantry D company.

I may have missed it but I did not see a CS sword plate buckle. That shows how hard they are to find. I still cannot believe I found one.

I've got a small collection of non dug buttons. But I suspect some are Indian Wars and Span-Am War. I have a non dug "tin back" Mississippi and the collector who sold it to me said it was likely post Reconstruction. I have a really ornate 71st NY Infantry I suspect is Span-Am Period. Remember the 71st NY Inf. raced Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders to catch the train to Miami.

To think that Texas plate came from Hoods men is amazing to me. As a kid I would go through books looking at plates and wishing we could find them. Texas plates always were on my wish list to detect.

You mean Birmingham "England". Major button maker imported into the Confederacy. The round eagle plate that you thought may be a buckle, youre half right. It is a buckle for an NCO sword baldrick, a cross the chest sling for carrying the 1851 NCO sword.

Y'all can probably hang it up now, you'll never surpass this! Incredible!

Very Nice button display! Eagle button where quite common back in the day. It was not unusual too find a hand full in a day. At the 11:29 mark the lined A button. There is a rare one with a 'P. Tait & Co./Limerick' back mark . I happened to find one at the battle of North Anna many decades ago.

It also looks to me that some of the breast plates may be Burnside plates. Smaller in size. I found one in the Cold Harbor area in a swamp back in the early 1980's. Nice plate collection. Very Nice !!

Lots of those buttons were in mint condition also those 2 water canteen bottles . The flag carrier spear that is normal as they have been going round for centuries in all wars across Europe .

Absolutely amazing, thanks for sharing with us. PS. The cat needs to stay in the videos.

I have a clipped corner with initials carved on the back, TMN maybe from McNeills Rangers

CAVALRY!!!

Birmingham was established post civil war around 1870, elyton was the name of the town prior to the city of Birmingham.

Enjoying the "hoard" videos. I have a connonball I would like to find a home for if you are interested. I'm in the Shenandoah Valley.

I guess the million dollar question is the guy related to the digger ? ?

The soldered canteen. Solder has lead in it. Lead poisoning is no joke. However, those guys had to worry more about lead bullets than lead solder. Am I right? Still, it is scary.

The Birmingham is England not Alabama. The breast plate with the 3 hooks is an NCO plate

Yeah, I'm waiting for the heat to let up here in Missouri so I can hit my Union encampment I researched. Just got out of the hospital 2 weeks ago after an appendectomy. Punched three holes in me to get one piece of meat and didn't even get a purple heart.

WOWZA to the N-th degree!

i have an old plate and it has leather and is made of silvery metal

How many museum's called u after this

I have a button and i need help identifying it!

Can't make out that north Carolina button??? Help.

To bad it has to destroyed with all the statues. Welcome to the new America

Thanks for sharing but you should have been wearing gloves the oils from your hand will transfer and won’t show for awhile but will show

How did you not have a heart attack or pee yourself unbelievable would have not been able to have the even keel you guys kept

Birmingham England not Alabama.

sorry but i just cant wrap my head around this its to overwelming

That one blank plate might be a Washington Grey's belt plate. Check it out.