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    Confederate Treasury Timeline: The Final Days of the Civil War

    This timeline contains two sourced context entries: the Richmond evacuation setting and Jefferson Davis’s capture near Irwinville. It is not a day-by-day account of treasury movements, and the gaps are not filled with assumed events.

    Start with concise treasury answers and their sources.

    JerryCorbin.com editorial · Last updated September 20, 2026

    Limited context chronology—not a reconstructed gold route. These two dated events establish historical context. They do not fill the intervening weeks with assumed treasury movements.

    Dated events in the cited record

    1. Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia

      The National Park Service describes Lee’s retreat from Petersburg on April 2 and the entry of Union forces into Richmond on April 3, during the Confederate government’s evacuation of its capital.

      Source: National Park Service: Richmond, Embattled Capital, 1861–1865

      What remains uncertain: These dates establish the setting of government collapse, not the amount, custody or itinerary of any particular gold shipment.

    2. Near Irwinville, Georgia

      The Library of Congress account places Jefferson Davis’s capture by Union troops near Irwinville on this date.

      Source: Library of Congress: Today in History — May 10: Jefferson Davis Captured

      What remains uncertain: Davis’s capture is not evidence that a missing treasury cache ended at the same location. The account’s description of cabinet payments is not a day-by-day treasury ledger.

    For the places used in the site artwork, see the illustrated treasury trail map. A place on that illustration is not a verified stop.

    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.

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    Confederate Treasury Timeline: The Final Days of the Civil War. JerryCorbin.com editorial. Updated September 20, 2026. https://jerrycorbin.com/confederate-gold/timeline

    From historical context to a fictional family mystery

    The Family Gold blends family inspiration, historical context and imagined narrative. It does not establish what happened to the treasury.

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