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- ↑ Du Pre Lumpkin, K. (1992). The Making of a Southerner. University of Georgia Press. p. 93. ISBN 9780820313856 . Retrieved 2018-03-18.
- ↑ United States Congressional serial set. 1872. p. 250. ISBN 9780331033984 . Retrieved 2018-03-18.
- ↑ Link, W.A. (2013). Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath. University of North Carolina Press. p. 91. ISBN 9781469607764 . Retrieved 2018-03-18.
- ↑ States, United States Congress Joint Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary (1872). Report of the Joint Select Committee Appointed to Inquire in to the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States: So Far as Regards the Execution of the Laws, and the Safety of the Lives and Property of the Citizens of the United States and Testimony Taken. U.S. Government Printing Office.
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