Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire Into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, Made to the Two Houses of Congress February 19, 1872: Testimony, AlabamaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1872 |
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Page 1142 - Committee to inquire into the Condition of 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," convened at their room in the Capitol on the 22d of September, 1871, Messrs.
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