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Copperhead Taylor shifts across Nevada politics to Union praise
The Silver State recounts Colonel R H Taylor once staunch secessionist now professing Republican loyalty while denouncing Hancock and praising Union valor at Gettysburg. It questions his fitness to educate Union voters and notes his tour of political change from Copperhead to party loyalist.
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