Confederate Gold - in Fiction

In Fiction

• In Gone With The Wind, the Union Army believes Rhett to have the missing Confederate gold, and they threaten to hang him.

• In the Italian comic book Tex, Confederate gold was placed on board a Confederate river ironclad which ended up in the swamps around the Arkansas River. The gold was later found by members of the Ku Klux Klan who intended to use it to finance a new rebellion in the Southern United States. The ironclad was destroyed in the explosion, along with the gold, by Tex Willer.

• In the Franco-Belgian comic book Blueberry, Confederate gold was smuggled to Mexico by group of Confederate soldiers led by Colonel Trevor, who buried the gold in graveyard in one deserted village. The gold was later found by Juaristas who used it to finance their fight against Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico.

• In the 1966 Spaghetti Western movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the protagonists get information about lost Confederate gold worth 200,000 dollars hidden in an unknown grave at a cemetery.

• In the 1994 movie Timecop, a single traveler from the future hijacks a shipment of Confederate gold using advanced automatic weapons with laser-sighting. This gold is mentioned later to be used in untraceable payment to terrorists in 20th century.

• In the 2005 action movie Sahara, Confederate gold was placed on board the CSS Texas which ended up in Africa. The gold was later found by Dirk Pitt.

• In the 2012 TV series Alcatraz, Confederate gold was hidden beneath Alcatraz prison by the warden in 1960 to be discovered in 2012.