Pistolero
Jr. Member
Hello all,
I was not sure whether to post this on the Treasure forum or Treasure Leads forum. So I reckon I will post it on both! Anyway, I have a couple of stories about lost Confederate gold:
(1) Has any of y'all ever read or heard of the Confederate detail (unknown number of soldiers) escorting $250,000.00 in gold from out west somewhere to the east coast in 1864 being attacked about two miles east of Tallassee, Alabama near or crossing a little creek? While they fought the commander detailed a couple of men to hide the gold just in case they lost and were captured. The Confederates got away or won the little skirmish or what have you but the men who hid it had been killed. It was never recovered. The only clues were that it was buried right at a sharp bend in the little creek near a split rail fence. Anyone ever hear of it? It sure would be neat to find that gold?
(2) Years ago, in the mid '80s, an elderly man told me that when he was a kid an elderly man had told him that as a younger man he had had been a Riverboat captain in the Civil War era. In early 1865 when the Yankees under Gen. James H. Wilson were burning Selma, and it was pretty much a given that they were coming to Montgomery next, the local polititians and civic leaders had two steam barges loaded with all of Montgomery's (the Capital of Alabama) money, gold, valuables, and even silverware and jewelry from shops and private owners. The boat's captains had orders to go, one downstream and the other upstream on the Alabama River, and to select a suitable place to hide or skuttle their boat to be retrieved later. That way it would keep the city's and the county's, and bussiness and people's, wealth and valuables out of the thieving hands of the yankees.
Well this elderly old river captain told the then young boy that the one boat was never seen again, but loyal to his trust and the Southern Cause he took his boat (I forget whether he went upstream or down) and not finding a suitable hiding place, with bands of yankee thieves, Southern deserters and scalawags roving the countryside, he scuttled his boat right on a point where a creek emptied into the Alabama River. He figured it would be easy to come back and find. He then made his way back to Montgomery. But later, after the war was over and yankees had settled down to just a good old occuppying force, he was sent back to find his boat. He never did and never could.
Now I figure the boat that was never seen again either sunk, was taken by union "foragers", southern thieves and robbers, or sunk or perhaps even the captain headed west to homestead, a rich man indeed. We will never know. But the one boat the old man spoke of is somewhere in the Alabama River, loaded down with wealth. Wouldn't it be neat to find it?
Has anyone ever heard either of these two stories? Man would I like to find some of that gold and what have you! Take care,
Pistolero
Millbrook, Al..
Author of "MORE GHOSTS AND EERIE TALES OF ALABAMA; True Tales of the Supernatural and the Unexplained! www.publishamerica.com/books/8363
I was not sure whether to post this on the Treasure forum or Treasure Leads forum. So I reckon I will post it on both! Anyway, I have a couple of stories about lost Confederate gold:
(1) Has any of y'all ever read or heard of the Confederate detail (unknown number of soldiers) escorting $250,000.00 in gold from out west somewhere to the east coast in 1864 being attacked about two miles east of Tallassee, Alabama near or crossing a little creek? While they fought the commander detailed a couple of men to hide the gold just in case they lost and were captured. The Confederates got away or won the little skirmish or what have you but the men who hid it had been killed. It was never recovered. The only clues were that it was buried right at a sharp bend in the little creek near a split rail fence. Anyone ever hear of it? It sure would be neat to find that gold?
(2) Years ago, in the mid '80s, an elderly man told me that when he was a kid an elderly man had told him that as a younger man he had had been a Riverboat captain in the Civil War era. In early 1865 when the Yankees under Gen. James H. Wilson were burning Selma, and it was pretty much a given that they were coming to Montgomery next, the local polititians and civic leaders had two steam barges loaded with all of Montgomery's (the Capital of Alabama) money, gold, valuables, and even silverware and jewelry from shops and private owners. The boat's captains had orders to go, one downstream and the other upstream on the Alabama River, and to select a suitable place to hide or skuttle their boat to be retrieved later. That way it would keep the city's and the county's, and bussiness and people's, wealth and valuables out of the thieving hands of the yankees.
Well this elderly old river captain told the then young boy that the one boat was never seen again, but loyal to his trust and the Southern Cause he took his boat (I forget whether he went upstream or down) and not finding a suitable hiding place, with bands of yankee thieves, Southern deserters and scalawags roving the countryside, he scuttled his boat right on a point where a creek emptied into the Alabama River. He figured it would be easy to come back and find. He then made his way back to Montgomery. But later, after the war was over and yankees had settled down to just a good old occuppying force, he was sent back to find his boat. He never did and never could.
Now I figure the boat that was never seen again either sunk, was taken by union "foragers", southern thieves and robbers, or sunk or perhaps even the captain headed west to homestead, a rich man indeed. We will never know. But the one boat the old man spoke of is somewhere in the Alabama River, loaded down with wealth. Wouldn't it be neat to find it?
Has anyone ever heard either of these two stories? Man would I like to find some of that gold and what have you! Take care,
Pistolero
Millbrook, Al..
Author of "MORE GHOSTS AND EERIE TALES OF ALABAMA; True Tales of the Supernatural and the Unexplained! www.publishamerica.com/books/8363
