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In Dickert's Book "History of Kershaw's Brigade", He says it was General Joe Johnston.

He comments that during the surrender of his army in North Carolina in April 1865, that Johnston noticed papers blowing down a train track. Upon investigation they found an abandoned train setting on a siding with the records archives of the Confederacy on it. The Box car doors had been open and the records were blowing down the tracks. Johnston ordered a guard detail placed on the train and the records secured. But no one knows how long the records had been setting on the siding, nor why the doors were open and what was lost.

I found his account to be an interesting sidebar.

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