Confederate gold
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Confederate gold refers to the hidden caches of gold lost after the American Civil War. Millions of dollars worth of gold was lost or unaccounted for after the civil war and has been the speculation of many historians and treasure hunters. Allegedly, some of the Confederate treasury was hidden in order to wait for the rising again of the South and at other times simply so that the Union would not gain possession.
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[edit] Treasures
George Trenholm, who was Treasurer of the Confederate States of America for the last year of the American Civil War, was arrested after the war and accused of making off with millions in Confederate assets.[1]
[edit] In fiction
- In the Franco-Belgian comic book Blueberry, Confederate gold was smuggled to Mexico by group of Confederate soldiers led by Colonel Trevor, who buried the gold in graveyard in one deserted village. The gold was later found by Juaristas who used it to finance their fight against Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico.
- In the Italian comic book Tex, Confederate gold was placed on board a Confederate river ironclad which ended up in the swamps around the Arkansas River. The gold was later found by members of the Ku Klux Klan who intended to use it to finance a new rebellion in the Southern United States. The ironclad was destroyed in the explosion, along with the gold, by Tex Willer.[2]
- In the 1966 Spaghetti Western movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the protagonists get information about lost Confederate gold worth 200,000 dollars hidden in an unknown grave at a cemetery.
- In the 2005 action movie Sahara, Confederate gold was placed on board the CSS Texas which ended up in Africa. The gold was later found by Dirk Pitt.
- In Gone With The Wind, the Union Army believes Rhett to have the missing Confederate gold, and they threaten to hang him (seemingly for killing a "negro") in order to extract a confession.
- In the 1994 movie Timecop, a single traveler from the future hijacks a shipment of Confederate gold using advanced automatic weapons with laser-sighting. This gold is mentioned later to be used in untraceable payment to terrorists in 20th century.
[edit] References
- ^ George Alfred Trenholm and the Company That Went to War - pub 1973- Ethel S Nepveux
- ^ Tex Willer - L'oro del sud/Gold of the South
