Confederate Gold Stories

[ECS]

(CHEESY GRIN) They were heading to BRAZIL, in South America; a "conclave" of ex-CSA families STILL live there with a SCV chapter TODAY! LOL! "Google" a BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CONFEDERATE COLONIES OF BRAZIL - THE CONFEDERADOS sorta like the ex-CSA "outlaws" the desperados in the American West. Johnny Yuma was a REBEL! ALSO "google" OS CONFERADOS (WINK)

Rebel,have you solved the KFC/KGC connection? Col Sanders "secret" recipe was a KGC treasure.
Also,have you noticed the KGC symbols at HOOTERS? The Owl,the quarter moon?

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[Rebel - KGC]

(CHEESY GRIN) LOL! Love KGC; Kinky Girls Club of Kentucky! (WINK) Yes, KFC is from Kentucky; LOTS of "treasure" there.
AND! HOOTERS? LOL! OWL is treasure sign for STOP, CAUTION, BE WISE & MINDFUL (look where you are going); QUARTER MOON? Waxing or waning? WAXING MOON ("horns" up) is after a NEW moon, gathering STRENGTH or getting CLOSE to what you seek. WANING MOON ("horns" down) is after a FULL moon, strength is waning; you have already passed what you seek. (WINK)

[Rebel - KGC]

(SMILE) AND! That circle you see... may NOT be the SUN; COULD be the FULL MOON! ALSO! POINT WITHIN THE CIRCLE (an OLD esoteric "sign")... COULD be TREASURE is/was HERE! (WINK)

[ECS]

While Florida is not a state on many KGC stories,it was the choice escape route for CSA Pres. Jefferson Davis,CSA Sec of treasury Judah P Benjamin,and CSA Sec of war John C Breckinridge with the remaining Confederate treasury.
Davis' portion made it to David Levy Yulee's Cottonwood Plantation,where most of it was seized by the Union.
Yulee's 2nd cousin,Judah P Benjamin and John C Breckinridge made it to Ocala,Florida by way of Hubbard Hart's JAMES BURT steamboat,down the Oklawaha River to Silver Springs.
Benjamin stayed with a relative,Solomon Benjamin,in Ocala,before going to Fort Meade and the Gamble Plantation in Ellenton,Florida.From there,Capt Archibald McNeil,blockade runner,sailed Benjamin to the Bahamas.
Breckinridge stayed at the Ocala home of CSA Brig Gen Robert Bullock,where he was supplied with a lifeboat by Capt John Jackson Dickinson,which Dickinson had taken from the USS Columbine,which he captured and sunk at HORSE LANDING on the St Johns River.Breckinridge sailed to Cuba in the lifeboat.
Another Ocala resident,was John M Martin,a member of the Confederate Congress,who also aided the escape of Benjamin and Breckinridge.
Lola Sanchez,a Confederate spy from Palatka(she supplied Dickinson with information on Union activities)was paid $500.00 in Mexican silver dollars,and it is possible that Breckinridge stayed with her relatives in Cuba.
Hart recieved $4500.00 from the Confederate government for clearing the Oklawaha of debris,a river he used for his blockade running activies.
In 1959,NE Ocala was still limerock and dirt roads,and behind the Jewish Cemetery was a derelict white clapboard ODD FELLOWS LODGE.On the gable was a sign with three chain links that formed a pyramid with an all seeing eye at its center.The front door had carvings in its upper panels.
The one on the left was a circle with a crecsent moon with a star to its right.
The right panel had a heart with an arrow inside that pointed down.
A friend scavenged this building and found two CSA artillery short swords,a bundle of Confederate bills,and three copper CSA 1 cent coins.
Many of the above names were Freemason and or Odd Fellow members-is there a connection to the KGC?

[ECS]

After the April 2,1865 fall of Richmond,the flight of the remaining Confederate treasury began.
April 19,1865 it was at the Marshall family plantation (WHITE HALL) in Abbeville,SC.
CSA Col Jehu Foster Marshall also had a plantation in Ocala,on the Oklawha River at Sharpes Ferry.He was killed in battle,Aug 1862,at the 2nd Manassas,and his wife ,Elizabeth Anne DeBruhl Marshall ran the Ocala plantation.
Mrs Marshall was a supplier of goods,including whiskey,to the Confederacy,and shipment was by way of Hart's steamboat blockade runs.
March 10,1865,Union Sgt Major Henry James led the 3rd Union Colored Infantry on a raid of the Marshall plantation.
CSA Capt J J Dickinson(Florida's "SWAMP FOX") repelled the Union raid at Sharpes Ferry,which ended all Union presence west of the St Johns River,including the Oklawaha and Marion county.
That area of Florida was refered to as "DIXIE" by the Union as a play on Dickinson's name.
May 1865 was when Benjamin and Breckinridge made it to Ocala by way of Hart's JAMES BURT riverboat,with part of the remaining Confederate treasury.

[Rebel - KGC]

Looking into any "old" IOOF (Independent Order of Odd Fellows) emblems, NEVER seen the triangular chained links before... may be a "BRIT" Order of Odd Fellows (OOF) "thing", or just REBELS using an old abandoned building; DUNNO.

[ECS]

Rebel-KGC,you mentioned Confederates in Brazil.Another Ocala/Marion couny Florida tale.
Dr G G Mathews was a well known doctor in Ocala.When the War of Northern Agression began,he joined the cause as a field doctor for the CSA.After the war,he returned to Ocala,but stated he could not live under the yankee carpetbagger and scalawag conditions of RECONSTRUCTION.
Mathews and several other CSA families of the area moved to Santos,Brazil,where he remained for 15 years,only returning after the end of Reconstruction,with members of the McGahagan family.
He settled 9mi south of Ocala,and formed the small community of Santos.
All that remains of Santos today,is a white wood clapboard church,and a series of signs of what buildings were once there.
Many artifacts from the 1880's on have been found in the old Santos area.

[franklin]

A fair amount of gold dust was recovered from the paddock area of Chennault Plantation. It was mixed in the red dirt. The well was searched with no finds other than small relics. There are no dirt roads left to search that we could find. The payroll that Davis had with him as he fled South from Washington through Greensboro and across the Occonne River was buried at Parks Ferry 1/2 mile from the river and recovered years ago. We did find the remnants of the 3 kegs next to the hole.

Did you find a chain that had been wrapped around a tree to mark the treasure's location if not then it is still out there to be found.

[Connecticut Sam]

Looking into any "old" IOOF (Independent Order of Odd Fellows) emblems, NEVER seen the triangular chained links before... may be a "BRIT" Order of Odd Fellows (OOF) "thing", or just REBELS using an old abandoned building; DUNNO.

You must be a proud member, and that your family is proud of you. Good luck in finding treasures.

[Rebel - KGC]

Still doing R & I on this; Brazil/Brasil CSA. Confederados & families living in Sao Paulo & Americana e Santa do Oeste; Band of Brothers (& families) - Fraternidada Descendencia Americana. HH!

[Connecticut Sam]

I know in my area I am searching, when I was researching Swift, I ran into some "Confederate Gold" stories in the area, which I believe were allegories pertaining to a KGC gold depository in the area.

Did you ever ran into some Confederate Ghosts?

[usernotfound]

Chain around a tree to mark location, mever heard such a thing. Would love to see an example.