Shirt Buttons from a Civil War Soldier Buried at the CW Powder Magazine

Name: Shirt Buttons from a Civil War Soldier Buried at the CW Powder Magazine
Start: 2024-11-04T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-04T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg

Schedule

Mon Nov 04 2024 at 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg | Williamsburg, VA

A part of our Good Stories About Great Stuff lecture series. Join us every Monday at 1:00 in the Hennage to hear the stories behind some of Colonial Williamsburg's treasures directly from our experts. This lecture series is included with museum admission.
In this presentation Staff Archaeologist Eric Schweickart will discuss a set of shirt buttons recovered from the graves of Civil War soldiers excavated at the Powder Magazine archaeology site. Come learn how these mass-produced objects were found and analyzed by archaeologists and what they can tell us about the lives of the soldiers they were buried with.