From the May 28, 2015, Opposing Views "Treasure Hunters Believe They're a Step Closer To Finding Lost Confederate Gold in Depths of Lake Michigan" by Amanda Andrade-Rhoades.
Treasure hunters Kevin Dykstra and Frederick J. Monroe think they've found a chance to find the lost ship in lake Michigan that supposedly was carrying the famed, but unsubstantiated "Confederate Gold."
In 1971, "my grandfather told me a story that he had heard from a lighthouse keeper, who had originally heard it during a deathbed confession, that there's $2 million in gold bullion inside a box car that fell off a ferry into lake Michigan," Monroe said.
George Alexander Abbott gave his deathbed confession about the gold in 1921 and the story was passed down for generations. he was vice president of Hackley National Bank and believed the gold belonged to Jefferson Davis. Though Davis was captured at the end of the war, the gold was never found.
the pair of treasure hunters found the legendary shipwreck of the Le Griffon in 2011, but didn't report it until 2014 while they were looking for the gold.
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