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Emancipation Hymn and mixed Civil War notes excerpt
A fragmented 1860s miscellany discusses emancipation hopes and wartime suffering, followed by brief notes on politics, commerce, new vessels, medical ads, and varied society items. It references Union causes, slavery, and the global response, with stray poems, advertisements, and local curiosities.
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Provite
Committee On Commerce
Alabama
Committee of Commerce
St. Lawrence
House H
Wen
Limber
Pao
Internal Revenue
Canada
Congress
Walker
the Treasury
Mersey
Laird
Atlanta
Weehawken
Vicksburg
Tee
Pennsylvania
Adams
Earl Russell
Dr. Johnson
Great Britain
Earl Russel
Blairgowrie
Tsay
Bishop Berkeley
United States
Ketney
Maine
Pine
Nassau
Charleston
Wilmington
Semmas
British West India Islands
Africa
Tyokout
Cape Colony
Nova Scotia
Cape Town
Howqua
Halifax
Devens
Lient
Edward F. Devens
Gingox Waters
Chesapeake
New Brunswick
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Jin
Vermont
Moxaint