The destinies of President Lincoln, General Sherman and Confederate President Davis are forever bound to the Lost Confederate Gold, but questions still linger about those astonishing events: Why did President Andrew Johnson\'s administration believe General Sherman had been bribed with Confederate Gold to let Jefferson Davis escape through the Carolinas and Georgia? Who were the Confederate secret agents who had been in Canada, and why was a reward issued for their capture after Lincoln was assassinated? How did John Wilkes Booth escape so easily across a guarded bridge after Lincoln\'s assassination, and why do the descendants of John Wilkes Booth want DNA samples from the 3 vertebrae taken during the autopsy of the man believed to be the killer? Why did the Federal government launch decades of lawsuits and send treasury agents in search of Gold in the Confederate states and England? Why was neutral England asked to cede Canada and forced to pay $15. and the burning of Columbia;" "Hand-written Recipes and Memories from America\'s First Families;" "Fighting Words: A Media History of South Carolina;" "Palmetto Press: A History of South Carolina Newspapers" and co-author of "Knights of the Quill: Confederate Correspondents and their Civil War Reporting.".
She is the author of "Eyewitnesses of General Sherman\'s Atrocities in the Civil War." "Sherman\'s Flame and Blame Campaign through Georgia and the Carolinas ...
Before joining the faculty, she was a reporter and editor for The Greenville News, The State and The Columbia Record.
About the Author: Professor Emerita Pat Mc Neely taught writing and reporting in the University of South Carolina School of Journalism for 33 years. 5 million to the United States after the war? Find the answers in this intriguing new book about the Confederate Gold and the amazing last days of the Civil War.
The destinies of President Lincoln, General Sherman and Confederate President Davis are forever bound to the Lost Confederate Gold, but questions still linger about those astonishing events: Why did President Andrew Johnson\'s administration believe General Sherman had been bribed with Confederate Gold to let Jefferson Davis escape through the Carolinas and Georgia? Who were the Confederate secret agents who had been in Canada, and why was a reward issued for their capture after Lincoln was assassinated? How did John Wilkes Booth escape so easily across a guarded bridge after Lincoln\'s assassination, and why do the descendants of John Wilkes Booth want DNA samples from the 3 vertebrae taken during the autopsy of the man believed to be the killer? Why did the Federal government launch decades of lawsuits and send treasury agents in search of Gold in the Confederate states and England? Why was neutral England asked to cede Canada and forced to pay $15
