Hi, I am a new member to this forum. I live about 5 miles from the Petersburg National Battlefield Park, Petersburg, VA in Prince George County. My metal detecting interests are Civil War and coin hunting.I am retired federal civil service and worked for what originally was the US Army Computer Systems Command at Ft. Lee, VA which is located next to the NBP near Petersburg, VA.
I live alone on 1 1/2 acres literally across the road from an used portion of Ft. Lee. There was fighting which occurred in the summer/fall of 1864 in my immediate area as I found a fired Confederate .57 caliber distended ball and 3 dropped Yankee bullets on my property all within 75 ft. of each other. Soon after crossing the James River the Yankees marched to and occupied the Prince George County CH and encamped in the area. The Confederates were also active in the area which is far outside from the Dimmock Line. They conducted skirmish hit and run fighting. One of those skirmishes occurred close to and possibly on my property. Subsequently as the Yankee troop's presence increased the Confederates slowly repositioned their lines, i.e., retiring closer and closer to the Dimmock line near Petersburg. Unfortunately for various reasons usually involving past bad experiences with relic hunters it is extremely difficult to obtain permission to search on most resident's property in the general area.
I always look forward to meeting others having the same interest. I also am a long time amateur radio operator and have had a second career doing private and commercial satellite tv installations, maintenance and teleconference signal downlinking. I occasionally write satellite communication related articles of interest. I had a 4 page feature article with pictures published in Monitoring Times magazine, a worldwide publication, in the December, 2011 issue. The subject was off air tv programing reception of a Russain geostationary satellite which was directed to Europe and Cuba which I was able to receive...a good ole days type article.
My email addresses are either < [email protected] > or < [email protected] >.
John
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