Tales of Lost Civil War Treasures - Corporal Henry Fletcher's Lost Blue Quartz Gold

The gentle rolling hills and valleys of Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains provided few obstacles to the mounted company of Confederate cavalry as it picked its way along a seldom used trail. The soldiers were on their way to the tiny community of Sugar Grove located several miles to the east of their current position. There, the company would rendezvous with another that awaited them in camp. Single-file, the horsemen wound along the bottom of Brushy Creek Valley paralleling the small, sinuous stream. The narrow valley was bordered by low, folded sandstone ridges characteristic of this range.