Mosby's Rangers Confederate Cache
Verdict summary
PinPoint Treasure lists Mosby's Rangers Confederate Cache as unrecovered — no verified recovery has been published. Confederate guerrilla John Mosby captured a Union payroll in 1864 and buried it in the Virginia Piedmont before his unit dispersed. A source-origin review has not been completed for this case, so the earliest traceable teller is UNKNOWN. The published search constraint is Loudoun County, Virginia — Bloomfield/Greenwich area. Estimated value is reported as stated by its source: $350,000 in Union payroll (1864; ~$7M today).
In October 1864, Mosby's Rangers captured a Union payroll near Harpers Ferry. The take ($350K in greenbacks and gold coin) was supposedly buried near Bloomfield, Virginia. Mosby never disclosed the location.
Case overview: estimated value $350,000 in Union payroll (1864; ~$7M today); current status unrecovered; era 1864.
Search area: Loudoun County, Virginia — Bloomfield/Greenwich area
Best modern approach: Period-document research + landowner-permission farmstead detecting.
Evidence and provenance: Period Confederate cavalry records; Mosby memoirs (vague on location); Bloomfield/Loudoun County local oral history; Multiple Mosby Ranger cache references.
Legal notes: Virginia private farmland — written permission required. Civil War-era finds may have state reporting requirements.
Source origin: a source-origin review has not been completed for this case, so the earliest traceable teller is recorded as UNKNOWN.
Why this case is worth researching: Mosby's Rangers Confederate Cache pairs a documented historical event with an unrecovered-cache claim, which is what the PinPoint Treasure pipeline is built to test — cross-referencing archival sources, geology, mining records, and 1-meter LiDAR terrain where coverage exists. Every claim on this page carries an evidence grade, and grades are never raised to fill a gap.
Recommended workflow for the Mosby's Rangers Confederate Cache case: (1) read the primary sources and establish which of them are independent of each other, (2) run the cipher engine on any coded material, (3) scan the highest-probability bounding box with LiDAR where coverage exists, (4) cross-check anomalies against NDVI vegetation stress and iron-oxide satellite signatures, and (5) confirm land status before any field work.