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- ↑ Journal of the Senate of the State of Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi: Kimball, Raymond & Co. 1874. p. 192.
- ↑ Watson, Michael (2021). Mississippi Official & Statistical Register – Blue Book 2020 - 2024 (PDF). Jackson, Mississippi: Mississippi Secretary of State. p. 553.
- ↑ "Legislative Document No. 13 – Adjutant General's Report". Kentucky Public Documents. Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky General Assembly. 1862.
- ↑ Battle, J. H.; Perrin, William Henry; Kniffin, G. C. (1885). Kentucky: A History of the State, Embracing a Concise Account of the Origin and Development of the Virginia Colony; Its Expansion Westward, and the Settlement of the Frontier Beyond the Alleghanies; the Erection of Kentucky as an Independent State, and Its Subsequent Development. F. A. Battey Publishing Company. p. 623.
- ↑ Browne, F. Z. (1913). "Reconstruction in Oktibbeha County". Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society. 13: 288 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Reports of Committees of the Senate of the United States for the First Session of the Forty-Fourth Congress, 1875–'76. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1876. pp. 54–55.
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- ↑ Hargrove, David M. (2019-01-17). Mississippi's Federal Courts: A History. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-4968-1951-2.
