After he retired, Bob Brewer embarked on an adventure to find the missing Confederate gold, supposedly hidden by the mysterious Knights of the Golden Circle of the late 1800s to finance a second Civil War.
Everyone thought Bob was bonkers ... until he found some of the treasures!
He sketched the symbols others described, tracked them down when he could and plotted them on topographical maps. During a stint as a state inspector of beekeepers, he explored remote areas of the forest and found more carvings on trees and rock faces.
Many were recurring symbols: snakes, turtles, crescent moons, crosses, numbers and letters with odd flourishes. Brewer figured they were cryptic indicators of distance and direction, clues to buried riches.
LA Times has this fascinating story of buried treasure, Jesse James, Knight of the Golden Circle, cryptic symbols: Link (Photo: Tom Ewart)
Unfortunately, even though Brewer might have solved the greatest mystery of US History, he will likely get more from the book than he ever found in treasure.
Maybe not. If I found millions in lost Confederate gold, would I tell the world? Or would I keep most of it in secret and show only enough to get paid for movie rights?
Hundreds of people had searched for the missing Confederate gold and came up empty (like another buried treasure case: The Money Pit). Even Brewer, who searched for 14 years only found a small fraction of the supposed wealth.
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if you get a chance, thanks for the neat post
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The Confederacy Treasury and the Virginia Bank fund was split into pieces and moved.
DOES anybody know where DIXIE is???
Yes it was in Arkansas!!!
Jefferson Davis owned 11,000 + acres there during Civil War!
Good Going BOB!
They try to say Confederate Coins were never made-- I KNOW they were!!
NOTE: There are times that protecting a treasure is far greater than diggin it up!
Today the Confederate Treasury would be scooped up by the United States Government as quickly as it would have been in/ after the War Between the States! ( Nothing Civil About it!
Dave Kennedy