SC governor recognized for preserving records, making them easy to access

By: Jessica Holdman

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: September 23, 2026

Words: 599

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 3 days ago

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COLUMBIA — During his tenure as South Carolina’s attorney general, Gov. Henry McMaster fought in court to retrieve a trove of Civil War gubernatorial papers removed from the capital in 1865 and found in a closet roughly 135 years later by a descendant of a Confederate general.

Arguing the 444 documents belonged to the state, McMaster sued in 2004 ahead of their scheduled auction and ultimately prevailed through U.S. Bankruptcy Court, U.S. …

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