Hidden Civil War Gold

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I worked at Fort Campbell in 2004 clearing one of the Ranges, we were mixed U.S./Brit teams, one of the lads in the team I was in mentioned there used to be homesteads/houses all over the range before the area was aquisitioned by the Government for training prior to WWI and it was believed to have hidden caches of Gold from the Civil War.

Many a time we used our detectors that could detect ferrous and non ferrous metals, to search in several locations, we showed the American lads a technique they hadn't heard of called Winthropping, it was taught and used by us as High Risk Search Teams in Northern Ireland to find hidden weapons and explosives caches that the IRA would hide, using the same rules behind these techniques it was clear to us all that there was a chance soldiers would have had the same things in their minds when it came to hiding items with the thought of recovering them in the future or even sending someone to recover them based on a quick description.

Suffice to say, unfortunately we didn't uncover any Civil War Gold but we did find a couple of small Flint Quarries that Indians had made their arrows and spear heads from, most were chippings but there were some full heads found and handed in to the Range Authority, it was great to see these and to hold them knowing they had been made hundreds of years before and hadn't moved from their location.

Does anyone have any stories of uncovering any Civil War or earlier finds?