Gypsy Heart
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Stories of the depredations of the "Yankees" preceded their coming, and families hid their silver and other valuables, often burying them in nearby woods. What horses the Confederate Army had left them were also carried to the woods. Pillage and devastation was certain to come.
It is said that the Bank of New Bern shipped a large amount of gold coin to Company Shops at this time, and that the money was buried in the woods nearby. Some years later, the story adds, a negro farmer ploughed up some $3,000 in gold pieces near this same site.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mwellis/book/chapter11.html
For instance, the bank of Newbern, North Carolina, took $75000 in gold and silver at the outset of the war and buried it in jugs in a grove near Salisbury
It is said that the Bank of New Bern shipped a large amount of gold coin to Company Shops at this time, and that the money was buried in the woods nearby. Some years later, the story adds, a negro farmer ploughed up some $3,000 in gold pieces near this same site.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mwellis/book/chapter11.html
For instance, the bank of Newbern, North Carolina, took $75000 in gold and silver at the outset of the war and buried it in jugs in a grove near Salisbury
