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This site mentions Fort Brook and Hart's JAMES BURT service for the Confederacy as a river blockade runner-but claims the JAMES BURT disappeared from service in 1863,contrary to the accounts of May 1865.Did the James Burt make it to silver springs and was there too much gold to carry or was it possibly buried?
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The JAMES BURT was unloaded at Silver Springs of some crates and several kegs of gold and silver coins,not heavy of a load.What wasn't carried by Benjamin,Wood,and Breckinridge on their escape from Florida,was possibly,according to local old timers, distributed among those who aided them in Ocala.