Record #:

12835

Author(s):

Chapman, Ashton

Abstract:

Removed from Richmond, Virginia on 02 April 1865 and valued at nearly $13 million dollars, the Confederacy's, \"last treasure,\" was dispatched with Captain William H. Parker, C.S.N., and approximately sixty naval cadets for safe keeping. Packed into boxes, crates, and canvas sacks, the \"last treasure\", moved from Washington to Georgia, via a multitude of stops, concluding in Abbeville, under the protection of the escort for President Jefferson Davies.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 28 Issue 17, Jan 1961, p9, 39, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865