I have been lurking on this site for quite some time, enjoying the reading. However, now I have a story of my own and possibly some questions. I know of a place where a possible civil war cache is located.
Around 1950 a man purchased a tract of land. And in preparing to farm this property he had portions of it cleared of trees and large rocks with a dozer. Around 1960 a man came to the property claiming to have a map leading to a cache on the property. This cache was a civil war era cache from a robbery. The owner allowed the man to go look for the cache agreeing to spit what was found. After some time the man came back to the owner very upset, as the trees and rocks that were to have been used as markers were not there. The owner laughed and told of his clearing the land. The man with the map left.
This property is in the mid-west and I have access to it. I have never seen the map. However, someone that was there during the previously told event, told me of the general location in which the cache was thought to be. A few days ago, I was walking around the property and saw a large trapezoidal shaped rock leaned against a very large oak tree with a smaller rock beneath it. This tree is approximately 8-10 feet in circumference at the base. Out of curiosity, I followed what looked to be the most obvious point of the rock. After walking in that direction for a couple hundred feet, I found another oak tree rather unusually shaped. This tree is approximately 5-6 feet in circumference at the base. Approximately 3.5 feet from the ground, the tree spits to form a "V". Approximately 1.5-2 feet from the base of the "V" a limb crosses the "V" and has grown into and through the opposite limb of the "V". Nothing else seemed to stick out as unusual in the area. This is in the general area where the cache is thought to be.
My questions are... How big would a white oak tree be now, if it were alive during the civil war (accounting for the variance in seasons in the mid-west)? What is the likelihood of an oak tree limb growing into and through another limb of the same tree? Would it not have been too much effort for someone, obviously not wanting to stay in the area, to bind a limb of a, small at the time, oak tree to another for a marker?
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