The government shut down has affected my job and I am not getting paid at this time but waiting to go back to work. In the meantime I cannot trespass on federal property of the swamp (Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve). So I cannot work, hunt, fish, canoe, hike or explore until the govt re-opens..
It is very probable that Charles Christopher Johnson,who married Charles Greenleigh McKinney's daughter,Lilly Lee(McKinney servered under CSA Major Mornelin and CSA Capt Hendry at CSA Fort Meade and knew the story first hand)may have found that lost gold.Johnson did have a scam of coating silver dollars with gold-where did he get that gold?Also,Mel Fisher consulted with Johnson on several south Florida treasure legends,but Fisher never pursued the lost Confederate gold in the Everglades legend.
It is a shame that Congress plays party games that effect the lives of the people they were elected to serve.
Good to see that you are still on the hunt.You mentioned that your show was not sold to any networks,do you have any footage that you can share on TN?
A first hand account of CSA and Union activities on the St Johns River,including skirmishes,gun boat & blockade captures,scuttled and sunk are contained in the memoirs of CSA Pvt Jasper Jackson Dykes of Welatka,who served with Hopkins 4th Volunteer Regiment and later under CSA Capt J J Dickison's 2nd Florida Cavalry.
