Legend of the Lost Confederate Gold Traditional Cache
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Legend of the Lost Confederate Gold
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Near this spot stands Chennault Plantation. On the night of
5/24/1865, two wagon trains filled with gold containing the last of
the Confederate treasury were robbed at Chennault Crossroads in
Lincoln County.
The geocache is hidden near a granite marker bearing the names
of the families that settled the surrounding area. Look and you
will find the geocache. Look harder and you may just find the lost
Confederate Gold!
Congrats to jcmanvzw for the FTF!
Chennault, GA, is located at the crossroads of GA 44 and GA 79 and
it is here that part of the Confederate Civil War treasure had been
lost when it traveled by wagon to Georgia with Confederate
president Jefferson Davis in the last days of the Civil War. The
treasure train left Danville, Virginia, on April 6, 1865, with
$327,022 in gold and silver coins, as well as bullion, donated
jewelry, and even floor sweepings from the Dahlonega mint. Some
$450,000 in coins and specie checks (paper money that could be
redeemed for metallic coins) that originated with Richmond banks
also traveled with the fleeing Confederate government. Almost all
the Confederate assets was dispersed, to pay soldiers returning
home, before the capture of Davis on May 10, 1865, near Irwinville.
The remaining funds from the Richmond banks were left in
Washington, Georgia. A detachment of Union soldiers set out to
divert this specie to a railhead in South Carolina. The wagons
stopped for the night at the Chennault Plantation and it was here
that on May 24, 1865, bandits attacked the wagons and $251,029 was
lost. Bank officials eventually recovered some $111,000 of the
stolen money. Union general Edward A. Wild led a search of the area
for more gold and earned notoriety for the arrest and torture of
the Chennault family, who Wild believed were hiding gold but who
turned out to be innocent. As a consequence, Union general Ulysses
S. Grant removed Wild from his command.
[Info taken from the New Georgia Encyclopedia]
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