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Civil War gold hoax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Civil War Gold Hoax was an 1864 hoax perpetrated by two US journalists to exploit the financial situation during the American Civil War. On May 18 1864, two New York City newspapers, the New Yo...
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Known by numerous names such as riverboat, paddleboat, sternwheeler, and the showboat, the steamboat was invented by Robert Fulton and revolutionized river travel between 1810 and the Civil War along the muddy Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers.
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To be re-enacted during Weston's Third Annual Gold Dollar Days ... Links to similar Civil War Events: The Civil War Reenactor's Headquarters for Civil War Reenactment Battle Schedules, Sutlers, and Information...
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Ongoing excavation of the Civil War submarine H.L. Hunley has uncovered another surprise: ornate gold and diamond jewelry. A ring and a brooch were found among clothing remnants of the captain, Lt. George Dixon, but their use and significance is a mystery. ... Ongoing excavation of the Civil War submarine H. L.
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This article was published under the title: Protecting the Gold in the winter 1998 issue of the Los Angeles Westerners Corral, pp. 13-15. ... In the first three and one-half years of the Civil War there had passed through the Port of San Francisco $173,083,098 from the California mines and the Comstock Lode of Nevada.
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The SS Republic was carrying 59 passengers and 20,000 $20 gold coins from New York to New Orleans when it sank in a hurricane off Savannah, Ga., ... All the passengers boarded life boats and got off alive, but the coins, intended to help pay for reconstruction of the South after the Civil War, went to the bottom of the...
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