Sources & Further Reading | Jerry D. Corbin

Scope note: These are institutional and government historical summaries, not primary Confederate treasury ledgers. Their citations and archival references can be starting points for deeper research.

References used on this site

Government historical interpretation

Richmond, Embattled Capital, 1861–1865

National Park Service

What it supports: Richmond’s wartime context, the April 2 retreat from Petersburg and Union entry into Richmond on April 3, 1865.
Limits: Not a verified complete shipment route or accounting of missing treasury funds.

Library and archival context

Today in History — May 10: Jefferson Davis Captured

Library of Congress

What it supports: The May 10 capture near Irwinville and the account’s statement that cabinet members took payment from treasury gold while disbanding. It also points readers toward contemporary material.
Limits: This overview is not itself a treasury ledger or independent proof of later treasure claims. Follow its archival references when evaluating primary evidence.

Read the site’s introductory article, “Confederate Gold: Separating History from Legend,” to see these references cited in context.

About This Research

Jerry D. Corbin is an author and storyteller whose work draws on family history, historical events and fiction. These pages are site-curated reference material. They do not claim that Jerry has established an original, verified treasury route, and they do not present him as holding academic credentials.

Family history connects his storytelling to this subject. The Family Gold combines that family inspiration with historical context and imagined narrative; the novel is not offered as independent evidence for a treasury route.

Claims are separated using the labels below so that a sourced event is not confused with a later story or a fictional narrative.

Documented history: A specific claim tied to a named source. The claim must stay within what that source actually supports.
Disputed account: An account whose interpretation or evidentiary basis remains contested. It must be attributed, not presented as a settled finding.
Legend: A story that persists in later retellings. Longevity or popularity does not establish its historical truth.
Family story: Personal or inherited memory, identified as such rather than treated as independent archival corroboration.
Fiction: The imagined narrative of a novel. The Family Gold is not a documentary account or a claim to have solved the treasury’s fate.

Cite This Resource

Sources & Further Reading. JerryCorbin.com editorial. Updated September 20, 2026. https://jerrycorbin.com/confederate-gold/sources