Washington Confederate Treasury — Bank of Georgia

Captain William H. Parker escorted the Confederate treasury train south from Virginia. After zigzagging across the South Carolina–Georgia line, the convoy reached Washington, Georgia, where Davis met Parker in early May 1865. Unpaid Confederate troops demanded payment at Chennault; the Richmond bank reserves were deposited in the Bank of Georgia at Washington before Union occupation forces seized what remained. How much gold left the vault, was dispersed to troops, or was lost in later raids remains disputed. Washington's antebellum courthouse square and historic bank buildings anchor Georgia's best-documented lost-Confederate-gold mystery.