Question re: Soldier's and Sailor's Monument

[Ray1936]

I recall reading where a 'time capsule' was found in the base of the Campus Martius location of the Soldier's and Sailor's Monument when it was moved to its present location. Inside were sheets of paper which should have listed Detroit CW volunteers that had turned to mush due to water, but there was also some kind of commemorative coin found which nicely survived.

Anybody know where there might be a photo of that found coin, or, at least, a detailed description? [[Old CW buff here....forgive me!)

[Jimaz]

Here's a clue from some guy named Ray1936: "The only recovered item was a medallion that is now at the Detroit Historical Museum."

[Brock7]

Only thing I turned up is this from a Free Press article quoted in another forum:

https://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/t...t&comment=6167

" CIVIL WAR MEMORABILIA: Two 1860s-era silver pieces shine from the muck found inside a Detroit monument

October 11, 2003 BY M.L. ELRICK FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

An 1866 silver dollar, a medallion, a silk ribbon and the leather bindings from books stashed in a copper box deep inside Detroit's Soldiers & Sailors Monument were all that survived a rather damp 136-year sequestration.

The artifacts honoring Michigan's 90,747 Civil War veterans were unveiled Friday at the Detroit Historical Museum, where preservationists worked to salvage something from a copper box full of muddy pulp.
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Museum curators said the Detroit Tribune from that date reported that dignitaries filled the container with roll calls of Civil War veterans and casualties, gubernatorial proclamations from the war era, law books, contemporary maps and manuals, a history of Detroit and a Jan. 4, 1800 newspaper announcing George Washington's death.
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All that survived intact were a silver dollar inscribed on one side with "J.H. Morrison, jeweler, Detroit, Mich., July 4th, 1867" and a silver medallion that Zembala said Morrison must have made.

The thin medallion depicts Michigan's coat of arms. It carries the inscription "Michigan's Contribution to the War, 90,747 men" on one side and "Erected by the people of Michigan to the honor and memory of the gallant soldiers and sailors of the State who fought and fell on the war of 1861-65, for the preservation of the Union and Freedom" on the other.

The museum said the pieces are essentially priceless."

[Ray1936]

Exactly what I was looking for, Brock. Thanks much.