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- ↑ History, Mississippi Department of Archives and (July 26, 1904). "The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi". Department of Archives and History – via Google Books.
- ↑ Bynum, Victoria E. (February 1, 2003). The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807854679 – via Google Books.
- 1 2 "The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Facts Of Reconstruction, by John R. Lynch". www.gutenberg.org. (Chapter 3)
- ↑ "Clipped from the Clarion-Ledger". The Clarion-Ledger. 9 December 1869. p. 2.
- ↑ "Clipped From The Clarion-Ledger". The Clarion-Ledger. July 18, 1877. p. 2 – via newspapers.com.
- ↑ Senate, United States. Congress (1909). "Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America".
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-07-07. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ Rowland, Dunbar (July 26, 1907). "Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form". Southern Historical Publishing Association – via Google Books.
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