Confederate gold made perilous journey to Augusta

Maj. Raphael Moses had a long night ahead of him.

He had just received custody of gold bullion worth $40,000, and there would be no leaving Washington, Ga., that night.

"The town was full of stragglers, cavalry men who had just been paid $20 each. They had arms but no consciences, and the little taste they had of specie provoked their appetites and like Oliver Twist, they wanted MORE," Moses would later write.

The gold would be heading to Augusta in the morning by train, but first Moses had to make it through the night of May 3, 1865.

His first step was to hire 10 men of the Washington artillery, whom he agreed to pay $10 in gold each if they would guard the gold that night and help him make it to Augusta.

Together they went around town and destroyed all the liquor they could find in shops. Next, Moses put a keg of gunpowder in the building where the bullion was stored and spread word in the community that he would "fire" the building if it was rushed. The guards were placed outside the door.

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Jefferson Davis Highway has winding history

Naming a highway after the president of the Confederate States of America makes sense in the heart of the South.

Augusta and Aiken's stretch of U.S. Highway 1 have several markers identifying the road as Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, including over the Fifth Street bridge.

But if the history of Jefferson Davis Highway starts in the South, it doesn't end there.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy launched plans for a coast-to-coast highway commemorating Davis in 1913. It was common in the years just before World War I for private organizations to name a stretch of highway for their cause. The transcontinental Lincoln Highway, for instance, was proposed in 1912 by industrialist Carl Fisher, who also developed Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Miami Beach.

UDC President-General Mrs. Alexander B. White wanted a similar route through the South and announced the project at the group's 1913 convention.

In her annual report, she recommended "that the United Daughters of the Confederacy secure for an ocean-to-ocean highway from Washington to San Diego, through the Southern States, the name of Jefferson Davis National Highway."

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