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Free South. [Vol. 2, no. 12 (March 26, 1864)]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06107.32 Author/Creator: Place Written: Beaufort, South Carolina Type: Newspaper Date: 26 March 1864 Pagination: 4 p. : Height: 40.6 cm, Width: 28.7 cm Order a Copy

Union occupation newspaper. Lincoln proclamation appointing Grant to command the United States Army, Lincoln's call for 200,000 men, secret prisoner exchange meeting between McClellan and Howell Cobb, occupation of Sea Islands, freeing of slaves & leasing of lands, General Meade's speech in Philadelphia, Brooklyn Sanitary Fair. Graphite inscription "W.T.I. Hawkins."

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

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