Show THE confederate TREASURY loncoln I brother lii in law tells how the all lat last wu was divided dr it C todd ot of barnwell Ham well 8 C a di dl surgeon of tho the confederate army and a brother in law ot of abraham lincoln as a well weil as a connection by inar riago with the family of kel tucky lucky during his hi younger days wa was often soften thrown with abraham lincoln who iani i ried his sister thus by family ties aad ly by association be he is closely connected with breckinridge and lincoln who were both presidential candidates candidate fl in IBM dr todd was in charge of the confederate hospital at charleston under general hardee II ardee and was with the party of the fugitive confederate enito cabinet when it hr din H r banded handed ija a describes the division of the alof last money of the confederate treasury a matter much discua discussed sed in the newspapers A few years ago A gret great t deal has hits been said about it bald said he bv but so for far as I 1 know no tion of 0 it Is on record I 1 was there in the room when the money was paid out and saw tho the whole proceeding indeed I 1 e am rn partly responsible for the division of II 11 I 1 L at a t the time I 1 had been with tho the coming down and I 1 heard the kentucky and troops saying they were going to have some of the tile money or have blood I 1 told breckinridge who was the secretary of war what I 1 had heard and said that there might be rioting and bloodshed there may bo rioting eaid said he lie but no bloodshed blood s bed I 1 then suggested to him the propriety of a division of tho the money among the soldiers and he replied we will see about it in the party were the confederate c cabinet and the tile officers of the four brigades of troops which were with us when we crossed the savannah river we bad had the laba money of the confederate treasury in gold and silver besides some gold belonging to the bank of richmond the money was in charge of colonel morgan a brother of tho the famous john morgan we crossed the tile savannah river on pontoons pon and went on the tile road toward washington ga when we had bad gone two miles from tit the e river we stopped at a log cabigon cabin on teethe the the south side of the road and there the OW was paid out mr davis had bad gone on about four miles ahead of us with his staff in the cabin were john C Bre breckinridge ekin secretary of war judah P benjamin general bragg the commander of the tile tour four brigades and colonel morgan who had charge of the money the division was made by a caucus of the men those thoo present were vaughns de do brells Bre lils basil dukes and humphrey marshalls marchalls Mar brigades marshall marhall mar hall was then under arrest and hia bis brigade was in charge of colonel IV C R I 1 breckinridge the census of the soldiers was the revert reverse oot of porters Porter ls some of the tile brigades returned fictitious names in order to get more money the division was tor for each man officers and common soldiers faring farin g alike some of them by stuffing the census got as much as M 36 a head lead divide by and you will see how many C 1 WG men were returned by the census of the four brigades in the paying out we finally came to a keg of silver inputs pieces three by tour four inches square they opened a box of gold belonging to the bank of lUch mond it was about eighteen inches long and ten or twelve inches wide and contained purses of gold they made a rough estimate of the value of that gold and of the keg of silver and exchanged them in that way I 1 got borne some gold then they carried the bank of richmond money to the bank at washington ga and deposited it they took none of it except a little box for which they substituted the keg of silver ingots ingols while the money was being divided out colonel morgan paid a man five live dollars an hour to guard it IL when we got through morgan took the remaining money and drove it away in the dark thence it landed in the bank at washington ga I 1 know only by hearsay but am satisfied that the information was correct that the bank of richmond sent for its money and on its way the men guarding it were attacked by marauders the guard was tempora rily dispersed and the marauders got some of the money before they were driven off atlanta constitution |