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  The bluff road north of Hamburg is the known haunt of a betrayed cival war payroll platoon.During the cival war the 11th Calvary regiment of Missouri skirted north to the Hamburg area with a military payrole to avoid capture by Union forces. The reportedly hid in a barn owned by Otis Borcher. During this time the seven soldiers were given quarter and comfort by local confererate sympathizers but eventually greed gave way
    to all other emotions and several masked individuals set the barn on fire while the soldiers lay seqestered in the hayloft. Because the soldiers
were armed the assailents felt that a sneek attack was needed to obtain the gold. Their reasoning was that they could collect the gold after th fire was out and eleminate all evidence of the conferate soldiers. Little did the towns people know but the gold had been hidden prior to the attack my the platoon leader Capt. Adolphus McNutt at a property owned by his family North of Hamburg on the Bluff Road on a ridge above  
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