John Bell Hood (American National Biography)

Scholarship
Arthur W. Bergeron, “Hood, John Bell,” American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-01177.html.
[John Bell] Hood was one of the most outstanding brigade and division commanders of the Civil War, but he seemed unfitted for the demands of higher command…He was aggressive but rash in combat. The historian Richard McMurry wrote, "As a fighter, Hood's luck never failed. As a general, he was one of the most unfortunate men ever to head an army" (McMurry, p. 24).

American National Biography Online

Alabama (Hayward)

Gazetteer/Almanac
John Hayward, Gazetteer of the United States of America… (Philadelphia: James L. Gihon, 1854), 25-26.
ALABAMA ranks as the twenty-second state of the American Union. It was originally settled by French and Spanish immigrants. In conjunction with Mississippi, it was set off from Georgia, in 1800, as a separate territory; which again was divided in 1817, the western portion forming the State of Mississippi, and the eastern the Territory of Alabama — now the state of that name, having been so constituted by act of Congress in March, 1819.

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William Tatum Wofford (Dictionary of American Biography)

Reference
Dumas Malone, ed., Dictionary of American Biography (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961), 10: 440-41.
After Georgia had withdrawn from the union, however, Wofford loyally offered his services to his state, and was commissioned colonel of the 18th Georgia Regiment. After brief service in North Carolina, he was attached to Hood’s brigade and took part in the campaigns around Richmond in 1862. After Hood’s promotion Wofford commanded the brigade at Second Manassas (Bull Run), and South Mountain, and Sharpsburg, and was commended by Hood for “gallant conduct” and “conspicuous bravery.” He served under Brig-Gen. Thomas R. R. Cobb and, after Cobb’s death at Fredericksburg, was promoted, Jan.
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Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 233.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, situated in the southeast part of Pennsylvania, with Schuylkill river on the southwest. Area, 425 square miles. Face of the country pleasantly diversified; soil productive. Seat of justice, Norristown. Pop. in 1810, 29,703; in 1820, 35,793; in 1830, 39,404; in 1840, 47,241; in 1850, 58,291.
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Rhoda Palmer (New York Times)

Obituary
"Miss Rhoda Palmer," New York Times, August 12, 1919, p. 9: 6.
Miss Rhoda Palmer Dies at 103.
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 11.—The death is announced near Geneva, N.Y., of Miss Rhoda Palmer, aged 103 years, reputed to be the oldest suffragist in Western New York.  Miss Palmer was a member of the first suffrages convention in Seneca Falls in 1848.  At the last election Miss Palmer was driven to the polls and cast her first vote.

Mifflin County, Pennsylvania (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 222.
MIFFLIN COUNTY, situated in the central part of Pennsylvania, and traversed by Juniata river. Area, 900 square miles. Face of the country, broken and mountainous; soil, varied, but fertile in the valleys. Seat of justice, Lewiston. Pop. 1810, 12,132; in 1820, 16,618; in 1830, 14,323; in 1840, 13,092; in 1850, 14,980.
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