Letter from Thomas Coffman to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 7, 1865

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Letter from John Dickerson to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; May 18, 1861

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Resolutions from the workingmen of Massachusetts; February 20, 1861

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