'“Major Allison brought something here during his retreat to Stanly County,” Ganis said.
To add support to his theory, Ganis read an excerpt from a writing by Edward Alfred Pollard, an American journalist who died in 1872.
In the excerpt, Pollard wrote that the bulk of valuable Confederate papers exist in concealment and were deposited in a place where they would remain in concealment, not to be “unearthed” within his generation.
“Records were brought here,” Ganis said, adding that at minimum they are the archives of the Confederate States Marine Corp.'
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