Poncha Pass

Colorado · USA · Cemetery

Union Army records place a skirmish on the north side of this Colorado pass, where Confederate raiders were caught with a stolen gold shipment.

The site lies just off the highway on the north side of Poncha Pass in Colorado, on a large curve, and it is one of the few hauntings on this map with a paper trail behind it in Union Army records.

A small contingent of Confederate soldiers had been sent to intercept a gold shipment and take it back to Texas. They succeeded. With the gold loaded on a wagon and the pass almost behind them, they ran into a Union patrol out of Fort Garland, with a posse of mounted volunteers already on their trail.

The skirmish that followed was brief. Three of the rebels were killed and most of the gold was recovered. Two of the men were wounded rather than killed outright, and it is that detail the local accounts turn on.

Civil War hauntings in Colorado are rare, because so little of the war reached this far west. What happened on that curve is documented, the location is specific, and both facts are unusual enough to make this worth stopping for on the drive over the pass.

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Poncha Pass liegt in Colorado, USA.