Photojournalism / Weston Great Gold Robbery of 1861 (c) 2001, Steven Wayne Rotsch 7/6/2001

Union soldiers leave the Weston Bank with $27,000 in gold coins on Saturday in Weston, heckled by Confederate sympathizers, during a reenactment of the Weston Great Gold Robbery of 1861. In today's dollars, the union netted over $500,000 in the raid. Pho