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- ↑ "South Carolina During the Late 1800s - The 48th General Assembly (1868-1870)". www.carolana.com. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
- ↑ "South Carolina During the Late 1800s - The 49th General Assembly (1870-1872)". www.carolana.com. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
- ↑ Senate, South Carolina General Assembly (December 12, 1872). "Journal of the Senate of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina". The Senate – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 · SOVA". sova.si.edu. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
- 1 2 "Death of a Republican Senator - Mr. Joseph A. Greene". The Daily Phoenix. November 28, 1871. p. 2. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
- ↑ Carolina, South (1872). "Reports and Resolutions of South Carolina to the General Assembly".
- ↑ Carolina, South (December 12, 1872). "Reports and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina". State Printer. – via Google Books.
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