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When
famed Confederate raider John S. Mosby rode out of Fairfax Court House in March
1863 he took with him a captured Union general, two captains, thirty privates,
fifty eight horses, and legend says, $350,000 (now valued at several million)
worth of gold plate, jewelry, silver tableware and gold coins that Union troops
had looted from neighboring southern homes.
Mosby marched his prisoners to Culpepper, Virginia where they were
turned over to General J.E.B. Stuart.
About
midway between Haymarket and New Baltimore, Mosby, accompanied by only one
sergeant, James F. Ames (who was captured and hanged by Union General George
Custer a short time later), buried the loot between two pine trees, marking the
trees with carved crosses.
Mosby continued his activities unabated right
to the end of the war when he gathered his men one last time and disbanded,
never officially surrendering to Federal forces. Mosby went on to become a distinguished
railway lawyer (and attorney to the father of George S. Patton). Shortly before his death in 1916, at the age
of eighty three, he told some of his close friends:
"I've always meant to look for that cache we
buried…. Some of the most precious heirlooms of old Virginia are in that
sack. I guess that one of these days
someone will find it."
Mosby's Greatest Raid
Treasure Legends of the Civil War
A lively history of the Civil War sprinkled with
tales of over 60 buried treasure in sixteen states. History buffs and adventure
seekers will enjoy this work.
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1 comment:
I just found a treasure marker ...where mosbys men had a cavern to hold 300 horses along Shenandoah river ...right where they disappeared...it took me 25 years to find it....whole inside of this mountain is hollow
..from ground penetration box...and found the air shaft to it...box marker is square meaning the treasure chest lied beneath.....going back now to dig
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