Confederate Find May Be My Most Amazing The Search for Chis Slonaker goes on
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- Hunting for Revolutionary War Veteran Christopher Slonaker but uncover a rare confederate object lost during a testing time for the First of Georgia and Gen. Stonewall Jackson
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How sad ! No matter what side of war you are on, these were loved ones of someone... 😢❤😢
Love the story along with the fantastic Georgia button.
Thanks so much!
Great hunt especially with the short time there. From day one you have mastered the storytelling, but you have come a very long way with all other aspects of your film making, from editing, to placement of music, to timing your cuts to fit perfectly with the story. Very professional. Keep it up.
Thanks 👍 Gordon....I really appreciate the compliment.
I like to hear the stories about these people as much as I like the finds. The history is so interesting. I have learned so much by watching your videos. Thank you so much.
Glad you enjoyed it Cathy. This recovery definitely revealed an interesting story and can only be found in books...our story and find revealed it.
I have enjoyed every one of your stories.
Awesome storytelling Todd! Thanks for taking us along and congratulations on the finds, especially the super button!
Thanks for watching
Great finds Todd. I really enjoyed this one.
I would definitely go back
Great find and for sure go back. I enjoy the history as much if not more than the finds. I have to pull thus one up on the tv so I could see. Getting old sucks. I need coke bottle glasses to see my tablet any more. Lol. My eyes get so tired. Thankfully my friend hooked up my tv's so I can get UA-cam on them and I can at least watch you there. Just have to use the tablet to thank you for sharing your adventures with this old woman. Take care keep digging and God bless you and your family.
Hey Gaye, thanks for the note and I'm glad you got help getting your TV all hooked up to UA-cam. Yes my friend even I am getting old....in my 50's, which I just can't believe. Only yesterday it feels I was still in college, and now retirement on the horizon....I actually like the history more than what I find and that is why I do it. Just like walking through a cemetery I often wonder what lives they had. The objects I find I wonder about the hands that held it.
Several nice finds. My favorite is the fancy button, beautiful!
Congratulations Todd!
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Hello from Knoxville my friend. WOW. Thank you for the historical information. The good Lord doesn’t promise us the future but he made us smart enough to learn from the past. Thank you for all the great videos over the years. Stay safe my friend and don’t forget GO VOLS and I’ll buy lunch if you’re in town.
Hey Steve you need to email me so we maintain communication. Appalachianhistorydetectives@gmail.com. How about the Vols capturing the SEC Title!! I wish I could have seen a game down there. The atmosphere on the campus is always electric for big games and my kids all want to go to school there having experienced it. One day I will be down there. I come about every year!!!
Very interesting. Thanks for taking us along.
Just love the old photos and history you put into each video. Never walk away without new knowledge. Um...yes, go back, huge fields, you know there's gonna be tons of stuff, just don't film the tin cans. Great adventure, thank you so much, see you next time....be well, God Bless.
Happy to see your still making videos.
I love the history you teach us and the history you find. I hope you change your mind about retiring at the end of the season. Just think if you don't find it, it might never be found.
After Tax Season and evaluating the fall schedules of school and activities, we will consider whether to continue or go forward. My research, door knocking and detecting all take a great deal of time, and editing takes as much. I do have many fans who have asked me to reconsider. Maybe by May I will know for sure. Thanks for asking and joining me on the hunt on this video.
Great story. Great. Video. Thanks again
So amazing!
To go back is a MUST!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Great learning the history as well as awesome finds. The key is incredible. Sad those poor soldiers were freezing to death. Enjoyed watching the video 👍
Great story telling! You draw your audience in to the point we feel like we are there--in this time and the past.
Glad you enjoyed it!
What excellent research snd finds!!!!
Heck yeah Todd, any button that big is most likely a Confederate Honker…. You know Button and your heart should have been pumping hard! Congratulations!
Thanks Erle. I wish I had known what it was when I pulled it out but I suspected it was military....just not Confederate...and definitely not a First of Georgia Button...I will take that over a silver coin any day.
Excellent find and story.
Todd, great finds for the short amount of time you were there. A must go back for sure. I hope it is warmer and the sun shining. Great back story, your channel is always educational. Take care.
Thanks P&P. It is getting Spring for sure. Still very crisp and cool for the most part but the ground is thawed now and digging is easy. How do you like your new AT Max? That will definitely make detecting more exciting for you. It's a great machine.
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives Pam used it briefly on Sunday when we went out, but the ground was pretty much froze. We ended up doing a lot of scouting getting ready for the thaw.We are hoping to get out next weekend as we have another cold snap here again.
Keep up the good work Todd, very enjoyable videos.
Thanks 👍
Awsome find and story I found a button like that in cedarville and I watched a friend of mine dig a couple in Nineveh 😁
Good hunt, great finds.
Our house was built in 1912 in east Texas. Every door in our house, and it is a large house…4,025 sq. ft. and has 6 outside doors. Two of the doors upstairs that lead out to the balcony and both have skeleton key locks. The upstairs was added in 1934/35 so those kinds of skeleton keys were still used in the 1930’s….at least in rural east Texas. We bought this house 34 years ago. I keep the keys for each door that has a skeleton key tied to a ribbon and on the glass door knob. Hope that helps. Nancy Curtis, Price, Texas
Thanks Nancy. Yes they were common even here and were popular throughout the 1800's here.
Great stuff!!
Total amazing mate thank you for sharing this story
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice! Enjoyed it!
Wow! Amazing story on the Georgia Regiment! All from 1 button! Beautiful presentation! Thank you sir for keeping American history alive!
Thanks and you’re very welcome.
Cool find and nice research
One of your best for several reasons. Perfect lead into a new series with a brief history. Great reference to seeking permissions and not just detecting. Thanks for the honest finds, trash and all. Great finds however. Thanks for the adventure and look forward to the next.
Much appreciated! Reconstructing History.....
Amen
Go back.A great video with history I enjoyed it very much and good Luck.
Glad you enjoyed it
thanks for the history, makes those finds more interesting
Glad you enjoyed it
Wonderful
Todd,
So moving, they froze to death with their guns in hand.....
Please go back for a thorough dig if you can.
You've found a piece of the puzzle.
Cheers,
Rik Spector
It's an amazing story and the only written account I can find regarding the First of Georgia or any Georgia Regiment in that area. The reality is if this is from that unit, it could be a very rare find indeed. The uncovered story is very sad. They never left but literally died at their post.
Great show, very well done .
Glad you enjoyed it
*a Perspective:*
*I'm an alumni, University of Memphis, Memphis State University* on my diploma, Class of 1981, my degrees are in Sociology, History, and Journalism.
At varying times , beginning in High School, I researched several subjects of the Civil War. I must note, although my accredited education was fully in Tennessee Schools, save courses I completed for Executive Business/Management, and a more recent Class through Yale University, my place if Birth was Chicago, IL, Northside, mere boocks from Wrigley Field, *"GO CUBS !!!".*
My Dad relocated us to NW Tennessee, his home area, just in time for me to enter 1st grade. (A decision I was not in favor of, always missed my home area and longed to return to, I was bonded with my environment and it does impact a child and their life forward. I adjusted to the area, had an abundant value of friends, yet always longed to go home.
With this in mind, I was in the South during Integration 9f the Schools.
Not one racial subject arose in my experience or in the block of classes 1 - 8. The High School had 1 minor situation.
*This reflects the fact that prejudices are learned and/or acquired through ones home/immediate environment. It is also a behavior associated the Human Lower Mind, (aka Ego Mind, aka Adolescent Mind), where all fear based and negative Thought Energies reside.
The Higher Mind, aka Mature Mind, hold all Positive Thought Energies. It routinely requires a habit of being "Conscious in Thought" + "Applying Higher Mind" to establish a practice of Mature Mindedness. A ch9ice, decision, and actions, that overwhelmingly serve the individual with experiencing a far more positive desirable Life Journey Experiences, as it supports thie fact that we Create our own Reality, whichbis defined by the *"Universal Law of Attraction", and it is Absolute.* ref: "Quantum Physics Science"
I further relate this to, it being of the *"Divine Design".*
The Civil War, (every War for that matter), is an obseevable scenario if men and women living theough their Liwer/Ego Mind, highly displaying behaviirs that identify fears, lack of Self Value, prevalent in Greed, Insecurities, and bla5ant in Prejudices.
When humans are in this state they blame, the feel threatened, and they become aggressive. It is also a state of mind that allows for those in Power, Wealth, and themselves having Greed, to easily manipulate the masses for their perceived needs and for Profits.
I literally could write a book on this subject relative to the Civil War, for I have discovered what I feel, and have some evidence for, to be the measures that ked to the actions that initiated the war, and Abe Lincoln was in no manner the cause, he was an excuse for prooaganfaists to push for actions.
Any ideas of there having been other than the fact the war was about Profits associated with a Free Source of Labor, learned prejudices giving a false idea that one is superior to another, and Power over People, Profits, and Envy, would be misguided ideas promoted through the very ownerships of Print Media, by those whom expected to Profit from the War, a separate nation, and Control.
This is my perspective, based on information acquired through Research, Studies, and Efforting.
A very like mindset is obvious today, however there are far more Realized Minds that offset the situation, and their consciousness is growing towards a greater Harmony and Wellbeing for all.
Best "Thoughts" ...
Beth Bartlett 🇺🇲 🇮🇪 ☘️
Sociologist/Behavioralist
and Historian
NW Tennessee (presently)
I left TN for 17 years in Nevada, frequent visits to Chicago and a career of National Travel. Returned due to a personal health situation, and am doing excellent + pondering my next "exploration" 💥🔑☘️
Freedom begins and is a result of ones:
*"Thoughts + Feelings X Beliefs"* =
The defining of our Frequency which attracts all of our reality.
Hey Beth good run down....having grown up in WV I know from writings within families here many joined sides for reasons that may not be cited by many sources. Imagine being in Virginia but in one of the 55 counties that broke away...in the mountains they were far removed from the politics of Richmond, but some diaries state the Union would show up out of the blue, and just sack and burn and take everything regardless of your sympathies. They were pro-Union and yet many had their homes burned, wives raped and all sorts of evil that drove them into the waiting hands of the south who felt they the Union were the aggressors. Politics drove the war, but news travelled slow in the mountains and many of those just fought whomever showed up to take what they had regardless if they were Union or Confederate. It was a terrible time to be living in the middle, and WV, KY and Maryland found themselves in the middle.
Just got around to watching this morning. Great GA button! Probably not a lot of them around! Still some promise there especially for more CW finds.
Thanks Randy
Great hunt and I would like for you to go back, great history telling love your Channel Todd hope you don’t stop making them next year 🇺🇸
Thanks Fred. I'm at the end of my dig season and I have enough videos to last through Summer I think but after that it is really up in the air. I started this channel for my kids but they have grown older and moving on so my wife and I must discuss what the future of this channel will be. I appreciate your enjoying the videos so much.
Woooaaa what a great find, congratulations. The button is really a rarity. As always, an interesting little story from the big one that you have researched very extensively. I enjoy this kind of metal detection because when I watch I know exactly what you are looking for. You keep getting better, please keep it up. Keep rolling, Good luck, stay healthy and God bless☘️💫
Thanks so much for all of your kind words.
Very interesting thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice job
Great job 👍. Very sad story about the button you you found. I appreciate the history behind it.
Irish Spring Festival and Pickens Maple Syrup are keeping me busy.
Cool, thanks! I've never been to Pickens WV. I would love to make it up there to the Maple Syrup Festival...are you near there Ricky?
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives grew up in Ireland and I can be in Pickens in an hour from my present location. I was able to make it to both (Saturday).
Awesome button Todd!!!
Thanks 👍 Rob!!!
Super cool! Every time you said “pewter” I thought you were saying “peter” for a moment. Wonder if there exists any photo of the old hotel.
Todd Great video Nice button find!! You need to hunt that area. We have been hunting an area for years and it keeps producing great finds. Wish I could find CSA gear. Most of our finds are US. I'm thankful for that. Keep up the great work
Thanks Jeff. Anything CSA related is valuable anymore. I was in shock to learn what I found at this site. Had I known then....I probably would have fell over in shock.
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives Todd I know the feeling. I have a few CSA items and they are my prizes. Most people I wont even let them touch them. Look but no touch
Gotta love finding a skeleton key. I’ve only found one and it wasn’t whole. We just never know what we will find in places that look like nothing. Just goes to show research pays off. Never seen a buckle that looks like that before. That’s different. Awesome story behind that button. I would definitely get back there and get away from where the houses are now and more torch the woods and open fields.
Thanks Tony. I have yet to find this house...written documents are conflicting on this one which makes is more of a Scavenger Hunt. I was so hoping to locate it here where the book says, but I have strong leads on where his family believes it is. I just need access to look. The button was a complete surprise.
I bet it was. Kind of tells me there are more things there and maybe just maybe worth going back with the 6” coil just to get through the trash. I hope you access to the other property
you've go to give that place another go
HI... I almost fell off my chair when I seen ya show us skeleton key!!
Me too. I've only found a few of these ever...that key may hold the key....
I keep thinking about those poor soldiers being found frozen in March. I envision what if that were my precious son. 😢
It sure shows their commitment to their leadership in not abandoning their post even to the point of freezing to death.....terrible.
I am in the process of hunting/detecting a portion of my property. I am trying to figure out the age of the relics I have found.. age of a possible home site. I found zinc canning lids. Plus other things. Hoping this will give me some sort of age point??
Hey there sounds exciting. We all started somewhere and have found the discoveries you have found. Zinc Lids are post Civil War 1880's or later and used into the 1940's and even later in some locals. They ring up so good and have that awesome round shape....but it's like April Fools when you see what they are. Some collect the porcelain inserts and these are collectible. Good luck!
The buckle could be what is called a Conway buckle. They are used on horse tack. Newer ones look a bit different. But where the leather would slide through had a spike stick up and would stick into a hole in the leather to stop the leather from moving through. Google Conway buckle..
Sure thing Bonnie. Never heard of one before.
How very sad to freeze to death when almost ready to go home.
I would love to find where this event occurred. I live real close to this area but cannot find records where this bivouac site is located.
that buckle looks like its from a bridle or some horse tack
Buckle from off harness
My thought
Yes it think you go back
Go Bach for sure.
In all your roaming, rambling and researching, have you run across the surname Phelps? I have been researching this name for over 30 years. I have been told that Augustus was born "somewhere" in Viginia. He ended up in Georgia. I know from his headstone he was bornin 1803. From there back is a mystery. Every group I look on talks about records being lost back then due to fires.....
Hey Joan I have not come across any Phelps here in northern VA where I live but I did in Huntington WV and I think they had a clan in Kentucky. Have you tried Ancestry.com or Geni.com by chance?
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives I have tried ancestry, but I get just so far and think I have something and then they want me to pay to go to the next level. If I knew for a fact it was the right one, I would have paid it. But my money is short supply so I really don't want to waste it. Hoping my daughter can get caught up with work long enough to go to the public library where they have all the Gen sites already loaded on their computers.
Thanks anyway. Dig that dirt and have fun.
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives i think you have given me a new direction to look. I found out that W.Va. was still part of VA. When Augustus was born, so they could have been living in what is now W.Va.
That part looked to be part of a 18 th c dresser pull I think you should go the house might date back to your frame late 1700’s don’t be to sure to quick to say it’s not there a lot of those items that could date to the 1700’s weather it’s the house your looking for or not
you are right Tom it could be. The site having been plowed so deeply and so many times, no doubt has affected the artifacts in the soil. The escutcheon I'm sure is brass and from furniture. I wish I could date that design. The enigma is the color of the metal didn't have the Patina that brass normally shows. I was hoping it was Pewter which definitely would put us back into the 1700's.....but it still could be the house site!
Ahhh , skeleton key
Maybe a house fire
Nice,, you just need to get you a hat with big UK in blue on it, throw that old rag of a hat you're wearing in the burn pile
Haha...I almost lived in KY near Ashland. Lots of friends and family there. While at UT, KY was a big nemesis of ours in Basketball.....but I will stick with the Big T.....cheers!
Awesome finds ~ Great history ~ Excellent storyteller ~ Best metal detecting channel on UA-cam.
Wow, thanks! Sincerely appreciate the compliment.