The following story aired on KYW NewsRadio 1060 AM in Philadelphia on Aug. 2, 2008.
by KYW’s Hadas Kuznits
An amazing discovery is made at Philadelphia's Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum, as employees pack up for their move to a new building.
It sounds like a discovery out of an Indiana Jones film. When someone bought the building that houses the Civil War and Underground Railroad museum, it was forced to relocate. So museum program associate Herb Kaufman was going through some old papers in preparation for the move, when he uncovered a treasure:
"Apparently this very historic document was placed in an unmarked box."
Kaufman says it's a Civil War surrender document of Robert E. Lee's army from 1865 (photo). According to General Gibbon's memoirs, three copies of it were written:
"We know where two of those copes are and the third one disappeared into history. Therefore, we clearly believe, based on the fact that all the signatures are correct and it is a real document, not a photocopy or something like that, that this is the missing third of the three copies that were done."
He says it's priceless:
"So it's just a fabulous piece of real history of the history of America and the end of the Civil War!"| < Prev | Next > |
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