This cache is part of a series of North Alabama Civil War Trail. A passport will be available from http://www.northalabama.org/. The tour will take you around north Alabama to visit 20 historic sites. It will not be necessary to pay an admission charge to find any of the caches although some may charge admission to tour their facility. A paper punch will be in the cache and should be used to punch the appropriate spot on the passport. If you choose to find the cache before all caches and the passport are available just punch a piece of paper with the cache name and date found, this will be accepted for your coin. 200 trackable geocoins are available to the first 200 cachers to complete the series. Several locations in North Alabama will have the coins and their location is on the passport page of the above link.
Double Springs and Winston County have an interesting Civil War connection. To learn more and get the hints necessary to find the cache visit The monument in front of the Winston County Courthouse
To obtain the latitude coordinate of the cache 34 AB CDE AB is 0 and the hundreds digit of the date the swords were shiny. CDE take the posted coordinates of the monument 777 and add 24
To obtain the longitude coordinates of the cache 87 AB CDE, AB is 3 more than the number of confederate soldiers that shared the same last name. CDE subtract 1785 from the year the statue was dedicated