The Rebel and the Rose: James A. Semple, Julia Gardiner Tyler, and the Lost Confederate Gold - Hardcover

by Wesley Millett (Author), Gerald White (Author)

In April 1865, as Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled to Richmond, a navy paymaster, James S. Semple, was entrusted with all that was left of the Confederate treasury--and he and the gold soon disappeared. Millett and White reveal for the first time what happened.