The Lost Confederate Gold of Gainesville, Alabama
A wagon of Confederate gold, a cavalry corps laying down its arms and a cotton town on the Tombigbee. The Gainesville legend, and the real last days of the war around it.
The South's missing treasury, and the wagons, rivers and hills it supposedly vanished into.
A wagon of Confederate gold, a cavalry corps laying down its arms and a cotton town on the Tombigbee. The Gainesville legend, and the real last days of the war around it.
Local lore swears Confederate gold went under with the valleys that became Georgia's Lake Lanier. Here's what really sank in 1956, where the real rebel gold went, and why the lake keeps its secrets.
A wagon of Confederate gold, the legend says, vanished into the hills around Blue Mountain, Alabama, in 1865. The depot, the camp and the raid were real. The gold? Not one record.