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Re: Alabama troops and the lost CSA treasury

Here's an interesting piece I found in my records:

HENRY LANE STONE 9th Kentucky

Before we were disbanded at Washington, Ga., the remnants of the funds of the Confederate States, in specie, that had been hauled by wagons through from Richmond, was distributed among the troops at that time. I remember the men of our brigade got $26.00 a piece. Most of it was in Mexican dollars, silver money

I brought it home with me. Fortunately, I had enough to get home on without using that money, and, after our marriage, my wife and I thought it would be a good idea to have that silver made into spoons. We took it down to Duhme & Company, at Cincinnati, and enjoined upon them to use that silver, and no other, in a set of tablespoons, and those spoons are on our table today.

"MORGAN'S MEN" A Narrative of Personal Experiences
By HENRY LANE STONE
Louisville, Westerfield-Bonte Co., Inc., 1919

DELIVERED BEFORE
GEORGE B. EASTIN CAMP, No. 803
United Confederate Veterans
AT THE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY
LOUISVILLE, KY.
April 8, 1919

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