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Looks like >> Battle of Lynchburg The Temp. boat/plank bridge was located where the route 29 bridge is now.THAT would make sense,because 1/2 of the river at that point is an island.
As Ocala/Silver Springs as part of the escape route for CSA Sec of State Judah P Benjamin, CSA Sec of War John C Breckinridge, and CSA Capt of CSS TALLAHASSEE John Taylor Wood (nephew of Jefferson Davis and grandson of US President Zachery Taylor), that happened.
Benjamin had cousins in Ocala, and David Levy Yulee (another cousin) wife stayed with them after Jefferson Davis's baggage train made it to Yulee's Cottonwood Plantation in Archer where her 15 yo son, C Wickiliffe and CSA Lt John S Purviance, CO G, 10th Fla Reg, buried two of Davis's trunks.
After Ocala, Breckinridge and Wood escaped down the East coast of Florida, and at Fort Dallas (Miami) hijacked a Cuban fishing boat and sailed to Cuba.
Zachery Taylor was commandant of Fort King (Ocala) during the Seminole Wars and the Marshall family of Abbeville, SC where Davis and cabinet made final escape plans also had a plantation near Silver Springs on the Oklawaha River.
Benjamin went to Gamble Plantation in Ellenton (Breckinridge's sister Letitia was married to Robert H Gamble) and sailed to Bahamas with one of his blockade runners associated with the Gamble Plantation.
There is a lot of Florida's War of Northern Aggression history that has been ignored in the history books.
"not known if the two buried trucks were ever recovered or if they still remain. "
Trucks ?