HAULING JEFF DAVIS GOLD & SILVER

We corresponded (06 September 2020) shortly after I had purchased a silver Mexican 8 Real coin documented as being one of C.S. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's final payrolls to the Confederate Army of Tennessee, following their surrender at Greensboro, North Carolina in May of 1865.

I was intrigued to follow the myriad paths of the much-debated "lost Confederate treasury"...as I had one piece of specie from that original cache. I was later able to track down the soldier's original Parole Pass issued at Charlotte, NC and MUCH later...a photograph of the man showed up on Find A Grave - posted by a descendant.

Mind you...I'm no "conspiracy theorist" as to the lost Confederate treasury...don't really follow its many stories...BUT...I recently ran across another twist that takes the Confederate treasury (or at least part of it) in another direction. While I was not able to win this document, recently on eBay...I did save the scan which in the excerpt (below) clearly states that the soldier,

 

This is from a post-war questionnaire for a Confederate veterans' group; this man's account is something different than what I've read about it being hauled into the South's interior.

My thinking is that the soldier writing this many years after the War...might have mis-remembered the month, but he surely did not mis-remember the unusual task they had to do.

It strongly reminds of the beginning scene in SAHARA - a Clive Cussler adventure novel that became a movie starring Matthew McConaughey... a great scene with an entirely improbable story that followed - but wholly entertaining.

To watch the opening of Sahara, see:
War Scene 6# - Sahara - Ironclad - Intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlJFd162Z7s)

 

 

To read earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
CONFEDERATE TREASURY MEXICAN COIN (https://www.coinbooks.org/v23/esylum_v23n36a13.html)
CIVIL WAR GOLD TALES IN THE NEWS (https://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n11a26.html)
MORE TELEVISION AND MOVIE NUMISMATICS (https://www.coinbooks.org/v25/esylum_v25n09a15.html)

	NBS (coinbooks.org) Web