Original U.S. Civil War Chickamauga Battlefield Excavated Federal 1839 Pattern Brass Belt Buckle Lock Assembly is of bear skin with

is of bear skin with a shield in front bearing the State Coat of Arms and supports a red and black feather plume on the side

It has not been stitched/fitted to a mounting bar

The most simple versions featured polished nickel heads

and the breech block replaced with an earlier 1873 model

000 flights totaling more than 3

Original U.S. Civil War Chickamauga Battlefield Excavated Federal 1839 Pattern Brass Belt Buckle Lock Assembly is of bear skin withOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a Federal 1839 Pattern Brass Belt Plate Buckle dug just south of the Chickamauga Battlefield at Crawfish Springs in Northern Georgia. The Battle of Chickamauga, fought on September 18 20, 1863, between U. S. and Confederate forces in the American Civil War, marked the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia the Chickamauga Campaign. It was the first major battle of the war