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Lost and buried treasures of the Civil War / W.C. Jameson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2019]Description: x, 153 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781493040759
  • 1493040758
Subject(s):
Contents:
Corporal Henry Fletcher's lost blue quartz gold -- Rebel coin cache in Cobb County, Georgia -- The lost treasure of Colonel Norman Frisby -- The lost Parlange fortune -- Sunken Confederate treasure and arms off the South Carolina coast -- The treasure in the well -- Lost Yankee payroll -- Kegs of gold and silver coins -- Lost Confederate payroll -- The Lipscomb Plantation treasure -- Buried weapons at Cross Hollows, Arkansas -- Callahan Mountain treasure -- The Alonzus Hall treasure -- Lost Cherokee gold -- The incredible journey of the Confederate Treasury -- The lost treasures of General John H. Morgan -- Field of gold and silver coins -- Buried Union Army payroll -- The Bechtler coins -- Pots of gold -- The lost gold of Cohutta Mountain -- Civil War outlaw treasure cave -- John Crismo's lost treasure -- Poor Valley treasure -- The lost treasure of the Gray Ghost -- Buckhannon River Valley treasure -- Abandoned Union payroll -- Confederate treasure in North Carolina -- Sunken Civil War firearms -- Confederate silver cache in Pennsylvania -- Lost Confederate treasure cache in Vermont.
Summary: "Tales of lost and buried treasures associated with the Civil War, collected and researched by one of America's foremost treasure hunters"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 973.76 J31 Available 33111009139474
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The most compelling and exciting tales of lost and buried treasures associated with the Civil War have been collected, extensively researched and investigated, and are included in this entertaining book from one of America's foremost treasure hunters. They represent fortunes that have been lost for over one-and-a-half centuries and involve colorful characters from lowly privates up to famous officers, including Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy. The thirty-one tales in this book provide backstory and pertinent information, are distributed between the Union and Confederate armies, and range from Texas to the Atlantic Cost, from Louisiana to the Canadian border.

"Tales of lost and buried treasures associated with the Civil War, collected and researched by one of America's foremost treasure hunters"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes index.

Corporal Henry Fletcher's lost blue quartz gold -- Rebel coin cache in Cobb County, Georgia -- The lost treasure of Colonel Norman Frisby -- The lost Parlange fortune -- Sunken Confederate treasure and arms off the South Carolina coast -- The treasure in the well -- Lost Yankee payroll -- Kegs of gold and silver coins -- Lost Confederate payroll -- The Lipscomb Plantation treasure -- Buried weapons at Cross Hollows, Arkansas -- Callahan Mountain treasure -- The Alonzus Hall treasure -- Lost Cherokee gold -- The incredible journey of the Confederate Treasury -- The lost treasures of General John H. Morgan -- Field of gold and silver coins -- Buried Union Army payroll -- The Bechtler coins -- Pots of gold -- The lost gold of Cohutta Mountain -- Civil War outlaw treasure cave -- John Crismo's lost treasure -- Poor Valley treasure -- The lost treasure of the Gray Ghost -- Buckhannon River Valley treasure -- Abandoned Union payroll -- Confederate treasure in North Carolina -- Sunken Civil War firearms -- Confederate silver cache in Pennsylvania -- Lost Confederate treasure cache in Vermont.

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