Apparently our colleague "LFM" isn't the first person to ponder where to hide gold.
"Some of the Confederate treasures reportedly buried in light of Union take
over were:
$30 Million in gold buried outside of Savannah, Georgia, a hub of minting,
trading, and gold mining before it fell to Union forces. The rumor is that
the gold was buried under the name of a confederate general between two false
generals in a cemetery.
$500,000 in Confederate Gold bullion is said to be located in West Central
Broward County, allegedly buried by Captain John Riley, who planned to have
it shipped to Cuba but was being pursued by Union soldiers, and so he buried it.
$100,000 in Confederate gold went missing in Georgia in 1865, when two wagon
trains filled with gold were robbed at Chennault Crossroads in Lincoln County.
There are different theories about what happened to the gold. Apparently, it
never left the county, and after heavy rains, many gold coins have been found
along the road to Chennault Plantation.
Another treasure tale about hidden Confederate gold has the Confederacy moving
money to Columbia, Tennessee. By all accounts, $100,000 in gold and silver
coins was being transported by wagon in two wooden crates. As the men
transporting the money neared Athens, Alabama, the wagon became stuck in a
muddy “bog hole.” As they tried to free the wagon, they were warned that Union
soldiers were on the way. Afraid that the money would fall into Union hands,
the men buried the crates of gold and silver about a half mile west of an old
stream crossing, about four miles north of Athens, Alabama in Limestone County.
And as the story goes, the coins have never been recovered."
Seems as though us surveyors might be making money the wrong way with pin-finders and shovel!
It's all gone
John D. Rockefeller "went down ta Georgia" and found it all. You don't really believe he became so incredibly rich at such a tender age simply on his business acumen, do you?
never was there..
In all reality the War Between the States was fought over (among a wheelbarrow load of other things) who controlled Congress and....money; specifically other people's money.
If Jeff Davis and the boys had 30 million in gold back then they could've negotiated something other than an unconditional surrender. My bet is they were po' as church mice by the end of the war.
And, as with all wars, someone made out with chunk-of-change. I don't imagine they buried it or let two corporals, two mules and a buckboard try to carry it somewhere.
The plot for "The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly" was along that exact vein.
LOL. If the Confederates had that kind of $$, they'd have won the war.
You'll be hunting a long time if you're trying to find gold with a pin-finder.
That is just like Binnion's silver horde.
The location went with him to his grave as he never told anyone and if anyone knew, they haven't told cause they probably kept it for themselves.
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Note to self...if ever plowing and pull up some broken glass... Dig a little deeper...never know what is buried there...
DDSM
Not sure if yall have ever seen Brad Meltzer's Decoded but he did an episode on Confederate gold.
He had a guy who claims his brother and uncle where in the Knights of the Golden Circle, and he had maps and a key to the symbols that were craved on trees.
He uses a lot of older survey methods to find where the gold is hidden, and he has found more than anyone else has. Claims most of the gold is buried in graveyards on near railroad tracts.
http://www.history.com/shows/brad-meltzers-decoded/episodes/decoded-season-1#slide-6
In the late 19th century the Topographic Surveyors of the Russian Czars monumented their triangulation stations with empty vodka bottles. As a result, the majority of their points have never been recovered since the local peasants took away the wooden scantling left above ground as triangulation targets.
Probably used as firewood to distill more moonshine vodka ...
