An extremely rare copy of the Declaration of Independence that was hidden behind wallpaper to protect it from ransacking Civil War troops, has surfaced. By the time of the Civil War, Madison’s son, Robert Lewis Madison Jr., was in possession of the Declaration. The Washington Post reports that Madison’s descendant Michael O’Mara found the copy when he was going through family papers following his mother’s death in 2014. The Declaration, in a broken frame, had been in a cardboard box at O’Mara’s office outside Houston for 10 years prior to its re-discovery, according to the Washington Post. Stone to make an exact copy of the Declaration.

Source: Fox News February 27, 2018 18:11 UTC