Others barely change and even manage to keep a fair degree of gold "gilt" to their face designs. Some buttons get a "ground-action" or surface corrosion from the effect of minerals or water in their environment. Of course, a lot has to do with the chemical condition of the soil and its water-table. It is hard to imagine that after 140 years of freezing and thawing underground, they still are excavated looking just like this.
Dug buttons are amazingly sturdy little things. Normally, it would've been sewn in a double-breasted row down the front of the officer's jacket or frock coat.
This is a coat sized Confederate officer's button for General Staff, known as a droop wing variety.
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