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November 27, 2002 at 09:25:40
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I am a novice when it comes to treasure hunting, I have Tesoro Lobo and Micro-Max detectors. I have yet to use them with any regularity. So I visit the Treasure.net site when I can and peruse the forum for news and tips etc… I noticed today some previous talk about some organization called the KGC. I assume this is an acronym for something, and while reading through the messages posted, it dawned on me that the letters KGC were something my dad and I had discussed once before.
My father who is 85 recently passed down to me some family heirlooms. The heirlooms are some of the normal knickknacks with a few not so normal items. My father has always told my brother and I about when he was a child he played in the “war room”. Basically it was the attic of a pre-civil war home in Columbia, Missouri (Confederate Hill – on the National Historical Records). The room consisted of war relics brought home by family members who served. I inherited a few early breach loaders, flintlocks, and civil war items, not to mention WWI and WWII items. Amongst the civil war era items were some letters, documents, pictures and such. There is a group photo, of several men, some in uniform (Confederate) and others dressed in “regular” clothes. There is writing on the back of the photo, the first part is smudged but it appears from the rest it is providing some background on the scene and provides some names of a few of those in the photo. There are also initials KGC mentioned in the writing. These initials would not be part of our family. My father assumed the initials were for someone in the photo or for a place or just some type of reminder. We wouldn’t have paid much attention to it other than we found the initials in two other places on a different document. One of which after re-reading the other day definitely points to this not being a persons initials but instead either a place or (now knowing of this mystery organization thru reading the forum) the KGC. My family had very strong ties to the Southern cause, and to this day it is the most talked about period of my family’s history. I don’t know if this has anything to do with what has been talked about in the forum or not..can you shed any light on what KGC stands for, where they started, anything?
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