Suttler Buries money at the White House plantation during Evacuation

[jeff of pa]

he Did get it back.

The national Republican. (Washington, D.C.), 16 July 1862.



http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/l...=&proxValue=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=61

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

The reference is to the 1862 evacuation (by yankee general George McClellan's Army of the Potomac) of the White House plantation east of Richmond, Virginia, at White House Landing, on the Pamunkey River.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_(plantation)