"Anti-Slavery Celebration of Independence Day," Boston (MA) Liberator, June 25, 1858

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Anti-Slavery Celebration of Independence Day
Source citation
"Anti-Slavery Celebration of Independence Day," Boston (MA) Liberator, June 25, 1858, p. 102.
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"What is to Become of Mexico?" San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, June 16, 1858

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What is to Become of Mexico
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"What is to Become of Mexico?" San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, June 16, 1858, p. 2: 1.
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"The Duty of Our Government," (Jackson) Mississippian State Gazette, June 16, 1858

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The Duty of Our Government
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"The Duty of Our Government," (Jackson) Mississippian State Gazette, June 16, 1858, p. 1: 6.
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"The Atlantic Telegraph Cable," Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, June 29, 1858

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The Atlantic Telegraph Cable
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"The Atlantic Telegraph Cable," Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, June 29, 1858, p. 1: 1.
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"Stealing Cattle," Omaha (NE) Nebraskian, June 16, 1858

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Stealing Cattle
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"Stealing Cattle," Omaha (NE) Nebraskian, June 16, 1858, p. 2: 1.
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"Illness of President Buchanan," Boston (MA) Herald, June 16, 1858

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Illness of President Buchanan
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"Illness of President Buchanan," Boston (MA) Herald, June 16, 1858, p. 4: 7.
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"Illinois Republican State Convention," New York Times, June 21, 1858

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Illinois Republican State Convention
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"Illinois Republican State Convention," New York Times, June 21, 1858, p. 1: 4.
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Gabriel James Rains (American National Biography)

Scholarship
Edward Hagerman, "Rains, Gabriel James," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/05/05-00645.html.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, [Gabriel] Rains accepted a commission as brigadier general in the Confederate army. Assigned command of a brigade under General D. H. Hill, Rains commanded at Yorktown in 1861-1862 and led the retreat before General George McClellan's advancing army. Rains had experimented with explosives long before the Civil War, and at Yorktown he mined the adjoining waters. When he retreated from Yorktown he mined the road against pursuing Union cavalry and again mined the roads at Williamsburg.
American National Biography Online

Willard Saulsbury, Sr. (Dickinson Chronicles)

Scholarship
John Osborne and James W. Gerenscer, eds., "Willard Saulsbury," Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/s/ed_saulsburyW.htm.
Willard Saulsbury was born as the youngest of three sons of William and Margaret Smith Saulsbury, wealthy landowners in Kent County, Delaware, on June 2, 1820. Saulsbury prepared at Delaware College at Newark, and attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania between 1839 and 1840 in the class of 1842 before leaving to study law. His middle brother, Eli Saulsbury, also attended Dickinson.

Dickinson Chronicles

Benjamin Hardin Helm (First Kentucky Brigade)

Reference
Ed. Porter Thompson, History of the First Kentucky Brigade (Cincinnati: Caxton Publishing House, 1868), 341.
And when Mr. [William H.] Seward authoritatively announced that the garrison should be withdrawn from Fort Sumter, [Helm] had not yet been able to conceive that any body of public officers could harbor a thought of self-stultification and a secret design upon the institutions of his section; and he was so confirmed in the belief that there would be no war that he went to Washington to see Mr.
History of the First Kentucky Brigade
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