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- ↑ Auman, William T. (2014). Civil War in the North Carolina Quaker Belt: The Confederate Campaign Against Peace Agitators, Deserters and Draft Dodgers. McFarland. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-7864-7663-3.
- ↑ Auman, William T.; Scarboro, David D. (1981). "The Heroes of America in Civil War North Carolina". The North Carolina Historical Review. 58 (4): 336. ISSN 0029-2494. JSTOR 23538671.
- ↑ United States Congress (1868). The Congressional Globe. Blair & Rives. p. 579.
- ↑ Tussey, William Glenn (1992). Gersham Tussey and His Kin: A History of the North Carolina Branch of the Tussey Family and Their Descent from New Sweden, the Swedish Colony Founded in the Delaware Valley, 1638. Halcyon House.