Confederate Gold

One of the mysteries of the American Civil War is what happened to the Confederacy’s treasury in the waning days of the war. In this novella paralleling actual events, hunky Confederate cavalry officer and aide to President Jefferson Davis, Charles Singleton, is literally caught with his pants down in a Richmond male brothel when he is informed that Grant’s Union forces have breached the city’s defenses in Petersburg and will be in the capital by 8:00 that night.

Commandeering both the young quadroon slave prostitute who was servicing him, Eaton Matthews, and the brothel’s wagon and horses, Singleton oversees the transfer of the Confederate treasury into rail cars to follow the train of Davis and his cabinet to presumed safety in Danville, Virginia. What follows in the adventure in which Charles and Eaton grow progressively closer and more reliant on each other, as they dash south with the bullion train going off the rails and the treasury slowly dwindling, is a bittersweet lesson in the slavery of love.