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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09314 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Broadside Date: July 1862 Pagination: 1 p. Order a Copy

Includes the New York Herald's reports of McClellan's battles in the Peninsular Campaign; summarizes the news recently received from Europe; reports on "The Colored Race in Illinois" concerning the denial of "negroes" the right to vote in Illinois.

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