I did find 3 brass steamboat whistles and a cannon ball in the corner of my great grandfather's livery stable where he kept his stagecoach horses. They were buried in a canvas type seaman's duffle bag. The only thing on the bag was the letters US. I gave my twin brother one and my little sister one and kept one which I have in a shed out back hooked up to an air-compressor so I can blow it when the boats on the river a quarter mile away blow theirs and on days when it's pretty enough for the old folks to sit out on the porch at the Nursing Home across the road. They love to hear it. And someday someone will find some Redtop tobacco pouches inside a half dozen Clabber Girl Baking Powder cans with pea gravel in the pouches that were painted with liquid gold paint underneath a house on the square in Ashland City, TN. I know because it was my great grandmother's home and my cousin and I put them there back in the 1930's. The pouches and the cans are probably worth something in this day and age. Rsp. Jim Allen P.S. About a year ago I attended a lecture by a young man locally who had been traveling around searching for civil war artifacts with one of them metal detector thing-a-ma-jigs. He indicated that most of the items he found were like belt buckles and dodads off horse bridles and the like plus some metal insigne. He stated that the majority of his finds were usually away from what appeared to be the main camping area and surmised that that must have been where the Captain's Tent was and everything seemed to be buried in an area about 1 foot wide by 2 feet deep and 3 feet long. <G> ..... I said he was young.... After the lecture I explained the nomenclature and purpose of a 1,2,3 straddle trench to him. Jim