FBI Hunt for Civil War Gold Detailed in Unsealed Affidavit
- Gold purportedly vanished in 1863 en route to Philadelphia
- Treasure hunters skeptical of FBI claims that it found nothing
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Was a ton of vanished Union gold stolen by a secret group of Confederate sympathizers and hidden in a rural Pennsylvania cave at the height of the Civil War?
That’s what an FBI agent was seeking to find out in 2018 when he applied for a search warrant to dig at the site in Elk County, northeast of Pittsburgh, according to a court filing unsealed on Thursday.