oh my gosh near the site where
Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Pritchard
and a group of Union soldiers arrested
Confederate President Jefferson Davis in
1865 animal dijkstra and metal detection
expert Gary Drayton have just made what
could be an important discovery yep now
we're talking Civil War fine
that is fine something yep but a civil
war no way what did you guys find I
don't know if I'm ready for this
probably part of like a canister shot or
a slash right now yeah Wow
normally when you find these and there
was part of like a larger shop like
artillery you know normally you can see
weird it was all packed against each
other and you'll see like little slopes
on them it's kind of flat so done yeah
if it's got flat on it that means it was
part of the largest shot Wow nice work
so I wouldn't be surprised to find a lot
more of these in this area I think there
was a lot of soldiers on both sides that
really wanted that gold and I think what
we're seeing is evidence of how badly
they wanted it just before dawn on May
10th 1865 as a detachment of the 4th
Michigan cavalry began their approach to
Jefferson Davis's campsite from the
southeast another Union detachment from
the 1st Wisconsin cavalry was also
advancing from the north a firefight
ensued and two members of the 4th
Michigan cavalry were killed before the
regiment ultimately made the arrest of
Jefferson Davis but although the
incident was later recorded as an
unfortunate case of friendly fire there
are those who believe that Benjamin
Pritchard had ordered his men to shoot
anyone who tried to thwart his efforts
to capture Davis and with him seize the
Confederate Treasury even if it meant
firing on Union troops have Kevin
Dykstra and his team just found evidence
that the so-called friendly fire in
it also involved heavy artillery
suggesting that Prichard would stop at
nothing in order to arrest Davis and
capture a fortune in Confederate gold
and silver see how nice that sounds the
big fella in there and dig it up can I
check this one yeah of course
it's a coin
and it's an old from the Civil War oh
yeah you can see the stars going all the
way around the edges of it that is a
silver Confederate coin Wow a silver
Confederate coin could Kevin Dykstra and
his team have actually found physical
evidence that a fortune in stolen
Confederate gold and silver was buried
here and then retrieved more than 150
years ago to come out here and find a
Confederate claim where we think that
those wagons were your research is
proving true those wagons were carrying
sixty kegs of silver coins when they
dumped them in the ground they got most
of all in the dug Mecca but we found one
they missed for Kevin Dykstra finding
physical evidence that supports his
theory that millions in Confederate gold
made its way from a burial pit in
Georgia to a boxcar that lies somewhere
at the bottom of Lake Michigan has given
him and his team renewed confidence that
they are on the right path but a crucial
question remains how did six wagon loads
of gold silver and jewels travel all the
way to Michigan without detection
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