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- ↑ [Ossian Bingley Hart: Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor, page 101, Canter Brown, 1997, ISBN 0807121371
- ↑ Tampa in Civil War and Reconstruction by Carter Brown Jr. Page 12
- ↑ "The Tampa Guardian (Tampa, Fla.) 1873-1886". Library of Congress .
- ↑ Brown Jr., Canter (April 1992). "Tampa's James McKay and the Frustration of Confederate Cattle-Supply Operations in South Florida Canter Brown Jr". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 70 (4): 411. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
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