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The Great Kentucky Hoard is a hoard of more than 700 gold coins unearthed in an undisclosed part of Kentucky, United States, in the 2020s by a man on his own land. The finder of the hoard has remained anonymous. There were a total of more than 800 Civil War–era coins, of which over 700 were gold coins.
Getler, co-author of “Rebel Gold,” a book exploring the possibility of buried Civil War-era caches of gold and silver, joined Parada in Dents Run for the 2018 dig.
The FBI was hunting for long-lost Civil War treasure when authorities swarmed a wooded area in northwest Pennsylvania three years ago this month, newly-released government emails show.
Dents Run is an unincorporated community in Benezette Township, Elk County, Pennsylvania, United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has attracted attention from treasure hunters and the media as the reputed site of a lost shipment of gold.
Morgan's Raid (also the Calico Raid or Great Raid of 1863) was a diversionary incursion by Confederate cavalry into the Union states of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia during the American Civil War. The raid took place from June 11 to July 26, 1863.
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The gold was later found by Juaristas who used it to finance their fight against Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico. A series of western adventure novels written by Paul Wheelahan (using the pseudonym E. Jefferson Clay) featured two brawling Civil War veterans searching for stolen Confederate gold.
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