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Unknown The Loyalist's Ammunition

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05255.02 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Pamphlet Date: 1863 Pagination: 17 p. ; 23 x 15 cm. Order a Copy

A collection of seven individual works including a speech given at the Illinois Legislature, resolutions from a meeting of the 150th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and several newspaper excerpts. The topics include traitors in the Illinois legislature, protest against foreign interference, and opposition to the government

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