1.75” button with lightly aged W&H back paper. Center has illustration of a “Saloon”, although looking more like a snack bar, with scene of the barkeep pointing a pistol at one of the two soldiers drinking beer from mugs. The illustration reflects an event after the 1898 armistice but still while troops were located in the South, in this case Camp McKenzie near Augusta, Georgia. The saloon keeper murdered one of the 15th Minnesota’s young soldiers and some fellow soldiers mutinied and were bent on avenging the murder. They were intercepted and arrested before that could happen but this button is the result of the incident. Upper text reads “15th Minn. Where Is The Saloon Keeper?/Remember Feb. 5th, 1899/3d/35th, 10th/Called To Arms.” Extreme left edge has single pinpoint dot nick in the celluloid but rest of the piece displays Mint. One of the most unusual and scarcest buttons of the 1898 war.