The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Traditional Cache
Hidden : 10/5/2014
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Located on the Richmond and Danville Rail Trail.
Park at The Ringgold Depot Parking Lot or Shawnee Parking Lot. It's a shorter walk from Shawnee.
Inter the woods about 300 feet east of GZ. Then take the fire road for the easiest access to the cache.
Here you will see some of the workmanship of the builders of this railroad.


This nearby Five Arch Trestle pictured below is at these coordinates.
N 36° 36.725_____W 79° 15.652
Whitmell P. Tunstall, a lawyer in Chatham, championed the Richmond and Danville Railroad in 1847 and it was completed in 1856. During the Civil War, the Richmond & Danville Railroad played a vital role in the war effort, connecting Richmond with other parts of the south. When Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet evacuated Richmond in 1865, they traveled to Danville and set up the
Last Capital of the Confederacy.

That was

"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
Virgil Kane is the name
And I served on the Danville train
'Till Stoneman's cavalry came
And tore up the tracks again

In the winter of '65
We were hungry, just barely alive
By May the 10th, Richmond had fell
It's a time I remember, oh so well

The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na"....

The Band 1969

Additional Hints ()

Guvf vf abg n Pebff lbh jnag gb jrne nebhaq lbhe arpx ohg vg bapr znqr n terng Gvr.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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