Bob Pierce

Soldiers Statesmen Thieves & Spies Bob Pierce

James "Wild Bill" Hickok was a legendary lawman, gunfighter, gambler and, during the Civil War, a spy. When the Confederate capital of Richmond fell at the end of the war, President Jefferson Davis and what was left of his government fled the city bringing with them the entire Confederate treasury and the assets of the banks of Richmond intending to set up a new capital in exile. But in the next couple of weeks Robert E. Lee would surrender the Confederate Army of Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant - the war would be over - President Abraham Lincoln would be assassinated, Davis arrested and the treasury had vanished without a trace. Many legends and stories have arisen about what may have happened to the gold. Some say that it was hidden to one day fund the resurrection of the Confederacy, but what did Hickok have to do with it? Recruited by the Union for one last spy mission and with the aid of Moses Jones and old friend Samuel Clemens, Hickok orchestrated the covert diversion of the treasury to a vastly different cause. It's a story of danger, deception and lies. Spies, soldiers and politicians who had most recently been at war with one another working secretly in concert while others were led on to inadvertently help in the mysterious cause. It's a story of statesmen, soldiers, thieves and spies and of an incalculable mystery that doesn't reveal itself until the very end. What became of the Confederate gold? This is that story.