upon learning of this, white was again concerned for the safety of the county's records and proceeded to load land registration records ledger books onto wagons and had them transported to winchester for safekeeping. white selected for transport only the bound volumes of records which included "deed books, wills, and settlements of estates" and kept the unbound paper records in the courthouse, thus separating them so that the entirety of the county's records could not be destroyed by union forces. white likely chose to transport the bound volumes of records, as the loose paper records would have been more cumbersome to keep together.