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 Confederate Gold.

CONFEDERATE GOLD.

Thrilling Experience of Major Joseph M. Broun, to whom

was entrusted some Hundreds of Thousands

of Confederate Money.

To the Chattanooga Times:

I hand you for pubHcation the following- interesting papers :

1. Letter to me from W. E. B. Byrne, dated Feb. $.

2. Statement of ]\Iaj. Joseph M. Broun, "The Last Confed- erate Pay-roll."

3. "Biographical Sketch of Maj. Broun, Confederate Mili- tary History, Vol. IL"

These papers are corroborative of the story printed in many papers in which I gave an account of the capture by some rebel soldiers, after the surrender, of the gold wagon train on its re- turn journey to Richmond.

Very respectfully,

Lewis Shepherd.

Feb. 18, 1914.

Dear Sir : — Having seen in the Literary Digest of the 7th of February, 1914, your account of the disappearance of the "Con- federate treasure," my attention was called to a statement rela- tive to the subject made by Maj. Joseph M. Broun, deceased. Maj. Broun died in this city on the 9th day of December, 1908. and after his death there was found among his papers the statement in his own handwriting, a copy of which I take the liberty of enclosing. I also enclose the biographical sketch of Maj. Broun, copied from Volume I, "Confederate Military His- torv."