Well the troops did get paid in gold but it was coin. Bars almost always got moved by train. 2600 lbs of gold would likely have broken the wagons axles. The only reason they ever moved gold bars is because they were emptying out a bank.
Plus for everyone who doesn’t treasure hunt The words FBI, DNR and treasure hunters don’t go together. The first rule of treasure hunting club is don’t talk about treasure. After I read the words “located in a remote area” I got suspicious. Any treasure hunter worth their salt would have eased in there, dug the gold up and disappeared. There has been a good deal of civil war gold and silver dug up but the US govt doesn’t know about it. The US antiquity law signed by Bubba Clinton says that anything buried 12 inches or more under the ground belongs to the federal govt.