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- ↑ W. C. Woodall, "In Sixty Days, Four Governors!", The Columbus Ledger (January 16, 1967), p. 1.
- ↑ "Quick Facts". New Georgia Encyclopedia . 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2010.
- ↑ Jones, Charles Colcock (1883). The History of Georgia: Revolutionary Epoch. Vol. 2. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 433. Retrieved 30 March 2010.
- ↑ Clark Howell, History of Georgia, Volume 1 (1926), p. 384.
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