[PW] Fw: Army Letter dated 1874

John P. Dyson dyson at indiana.edu
Thu Aug 23 06:18:55 PDT 2007


Quoting Daphne Drewello <drewello at daktel.com>:

> According to Edie Bailes
>
>
>> Daphne, Jeff Davis was supposed to have made off with a large amount of
>> Confederate gold at the end of the Civil War.

There is an intriguing response to the Jeff-Davis-as-gold-thief legend 
at http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/articles.php?cid=49&get=3. It is 
from the February 1912 issue of _The Literary Digest_.

John Dyson



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