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A metallic negative of a well-dressed 19th-century woman, left, was excavated by the author while relic hunting in Centreville, Va., in 1992. It was recently converted to a positive image, right. (Kevin Ambrose)
By Kevin Ambrose
March 17 at 8:00 AM

My metal detector gave a loud signal as I swept its coil over the freshly cleared earth. I had just dug up several Civil War bullets a few feet away, but this signal sounded different. It was louder, and registered much higher on my detector’s meter than the bullets. Perhaps, I thought, I was about to dig up a Civil War belt buckle? Finding a Civil War buckle is always at the top of my wish list when relic hunting.

The year was 1992 and I was scanning a construction site in Centreville, which was a busy crossroads during the Civil War. The Battles of First and Second Bull Run, and the Battle of Blackburn’s Ford were fought nearby.

I was part of small group of “diggers” that chased the bulldozers around Northern Virginia, trying to salvage Civil War artifacts at construction sites before the topsoil was stripped away and the relics lost forever, buried under roads and housing developments. During the 1990s, the woods and fields around Centreville were getting developed at an extremely fast rate.

I knelt down and began to slowly dig a hole where my metal detector had produced the signal, taking care not to damage the artifact. At about five inches below the surface of the ground, I saw a thin, rectangular plate appear. My heart started beating faster. It was about the same size and shape as a Civil War buckle. Could it be?

I pulled the plate out of the ground and gently wiped away the dirt. Instead of seeing letters, numbers or a state seal, which is common on Civil War buckles, the face and shoulders of a woman appeared. What I found was not buckle, it was a photograph of a woman — the negative image of a woman in a dress — etched into a thick, metallic plate.

I gazed at the women in the negative, trying to flip it into a positive image in my mind. In that dress, she looked ready to attend a Civil War ball. Unfortunately, her name was not engraved on the back of the negative plate.

The image provided a few clues, however. The woman’s gown, off-the-shoulders, was favored by Southern belles and wealthy women at that time. Her jewelry also reflected the period. Ladies wore cameos, mourning jewelry and large lockets containing photos and hair of loved ones. And her hair, parted down the middle, was a common style for all women during the middle 19th century. One of the big reasons for parting hair down the middle was to make it easier to check for head lice, which plagued many. But as for her identity, it was a mystery. 

An assortment of Civil War relics that were dug up near Centreville by the author, including the negative. The haul included buttons that represent the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and South Carolina. The rectangular plate at the bottom is a Virginia belt plate. (Kevin Ambrose)

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