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Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes Daily federal union. [Vol. 4, no. 19 (November 29, 1861)]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05959.01.01 Author/Creator: Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes Place Written: Milledgeville, Georgia Type: Newspaper Date: 29 November 1861 Pagination: 4 p. ; 34.5 x 49 cm. Order a Copy

Subjects include Lord Lyons and the capture of the Confederate commissioners Mason and Slidell, admission of Missouri to the Confederacy, 11 November 1861 proclamation from the governor to the volunteer militia companies of the state. This issue includes minutes of the gubernatorial and senatorial reports, and lists of elected senators, representatives, and war tax collectors. Inclues small sections of Southern news, including the secession of Missouri and an update of war events in Pensacola. Selected correspondence between Governor Joseph E. Brown and General William H.T. Walker highlights the communication between political and military. Edges are frayed.

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