Maynard Haze, 3rd generation descendant and grandson of Jagard Haze, was drilling an access shaft for a new well on his late grand-father's property and discovered an underground chamber full of Civil War documents and official orders from the Confederate High Command. When interviewed about his recent historical discovery, Maynard Haze proudly stated the following.
"My family has owned property along the Bayou Tech in Louisiana, since 1765. One afternoon while drilling for water on the property, I hit a hollowed out area about 20 feet down.
Upon climbing-down into the chamber I discovered a treasure-trove of Civil War memorabilia and numerous Civil War documents addressed to General Jagard Haze, my grandfather who lived during that era. It was strange finding artifacts from the Confederate High Command in regards to my grandfather because nobody in our family ever new anything about his involvement with the confederacy or the Civil War, and he certainly wasn't written about in any of the history books."
The Haze discovery has been turned-over to the Museum Of American History in Washington, DC. Curator of the museum Dorothy Fynds, reported the following to the media after exaiming some of the Civil War documents found at the site.
"From the documents that I have examined, it appears that General Jagard Haze was completely covert in his involvement with the Confederate Government. There appears to be a parallel history of the Civil War now being pieced together from the Haze discovery.
"One thing that I can tell you is that in the last-days during the fall of the south to the union troops, an order was sent from the Confederate High Command to General Jagard Haze to execute as many black Negro slaves as possible before the surrender to the north.
"Whether this actually happened is not clear at this point in time. We are presently searching through our database for the names of those Negroes who were held captive in slavery from 1765 to 1865 in the south, and comparing them to our list of Negroes who were finally set free at the end of the Civil War. However, this may take sometime because we have already determined that there are literally thousands of our historical records that have been altered,or are missing altogether; without this data we may never know if this mass execution and other atrocities mentioned in the confederate documents ever really took place in the south, or not."
