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- ↑ "Thomas B. Randolph" . Retrieved 2014-01-30.
- ↑ Thomas Patrick Hughes; Frank Munsell (1893). American Ancestry: Embracing lineages from the whole of the United States. p. 221.
- ↑ William Garrett Piston; Richard W. Hatcher (2000). Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It . The University of North Carolina Press. pp. 37.
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