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Maryville Times (Blount Co. TN) Wednesday, October 13, 1886:
"A Strange Incident---D.R. Nelson this morning dropped into the Times office and related a little incident of striking features.
A large house in Philadelphia, Tenn., was owned during the war [Civil War] by Solomon Bogart. On the approach of General Longstreet with his division of the Confederates, Mr. Bogart was compelled to hide a number of articles which he wished to preserve.
A number of years afterward the house came into the possession of W.C. Nelson, father to D.R. Nelson. Last week Mr. Nelson was going to the dining room, and happened to glance at the ceiling, which by reason of age was full of cracks large enough to see through. A box met his gaze and he prized a couple of boards and secured it. The box contained eighty large plugs of tobacco. The old gentleman won’t need another supply for some time, as it was well preserved. For 23 years it had been in that garret, “alone and forgotten.”
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