THE LEGEND OF THE LOST CONFEDERATE GOLD (REVISED & ABRIDGED SINGLE EPISODE)
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2018
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Includes the fall of Richmond and the decision how and when to move the Confederate treasury, which was sent out of town at the last minute guarded by 50 cadets from the Confederate Naval Academy all aged 14-18, the attempted escape through Georgia and S Carolina, the seizure of the gold by union forces, and the robbery of the gold from the union guard. The treasury consisted of over 750,000 in gold and silver, jewelry donated by the women of the confederacy, and printed money (species redeemable for coin) intended for payment to the armies of the Confederacy..
Music Credits: Mattia Cupelli "The Call". Ross Bugden:.Reverie
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| 0:00.0 | At 815 East Gray Street in Richmond, Virginia, directly across from the Capitol Building, |
| 0:15.0 | stands St Paul's Episcopal Church. |
| 0:18.0 | A large and stately structure built in 1849 in the Greek Revival style, still active, and featuring an interior |
| 0:26.8 | bathed in the light of numerous ornate stained glass windows. |
| 0:31.5 | On April 2nd, 1865, Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy, was sitting |
| 0:37.9 | quietly next to the empty seat where his wife Verena would usually be sitting in |
| 0:41.8 | pew 63, but he had sent her and the kids out of |
| 0:46.2 | Richmond by train earlier that week his mind on this day no doubt filled with the thoughts of war which he knew was coming to an end, |
| 0:56.0 | and a life which might also be coming to an end as Union forces drew nearer and nearer to what had for the past five years been a Confederate stronghold and |
| 1:05.8 | the home of his work cabinet and family. As the minister delivered his |
| 1:11.7 | sermon Jefferson's mind was somewhere else this day, focused on these past weeks and months. |
| 1:18.0 | His presidency and leadership, having been roundly criticized from every side, from the military, the Congress, and the public. |
| 1:27.0 | For lapses in his military strategy, |
| 1:30.0 | for his stubborn refusal to appoint a general in chief to attend to his people in crises, |
| 1:36.0 | and his attempt to defend the entire southern territory with an equal effort in manpower and supplies. |
| 1:43.2 | When that manpower and those supplies were severely reduced by the prolonged war and the |
| 1:48.8 | South's inability to manufacture war materials and find new recruits from a dwindling supply of southerners. |
| 1:56.8 | His face tightened as he recalled the fall of Vicksburg, the capture of New Orleans, and the port city of Norfolk, the losses in the or spent so many resources on the Western Front and they had lost control of the Mississippi River. |
| 2:16.0 | His generals were at each other's throats. |
| 2:19.0 | Atlanta had burned. |
| 2:21.0 | Richmond had suffered food shortages now for three years. |
| 2:24.4 | Petersburg was under siege and had been for ten months. No food or supplies in, |
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