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- ↑ Mathisen, Erik (2018). The loyal republic : traitors, slaves, and the remaking of citizenship in Civil War America. Project MUSE. Chapel Hill. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-4696-3634-4. OCLC 1028905649.
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- ↑ Senate, Mississippi Legislature (1880). "1880 Senate". Mississippi House Journal. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
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