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- ↑ "New Item: The Radicals of Barbour". The Henry County Register. 9 August 1872. p. 2. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
- ↑ Ragland, P. (1873). Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Alabama Session 1872-'73. Mongtomgery: Arthur Bingham, State Printer. p. 96.
- ↑ "Forty-Second Congress. First Session". The Congressional Globe. 1871-03-04. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
- ↑ Reports of Committees of The House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Forty-Third Congress 1874-'75. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1875. p. 1244.
