Looking for Lost Gold at Mark's Mill in Warren, Arkansas

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In April 1864, two Civil War skirmishes occured here, and over one thousand soldiers lost their lives. The first battle started with a Union ambush of a train loaded with Confederate gold. A Confederate soldier, blinded by an artillery shell managed to set fire to the car carrying the gold. He died later in a hospital, not knowing whether the treasure was safe from Yankee hands. It is said that his ghost roams the area searching for the lost gold.

After another engagement here, Yankee soldiers hastily covered their losses by throwing the bodies of their fallen comrades down a well at Mark's Mill. Sometimes, a plaintive moaning of the soldiers' spirits can be heard, pleading for a proper burial.