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- ↑ States, United States Congress Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary (21 December 1872). "Report ... Made to the Two Houses of Congress February 19, 1872: Georgia". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.