Hand-Book of Politics for 1872.

Being a Record of Important Political Action, National and State.

FROM JULY 15, 1870, TO JULY 15, 1872.

By Hon. EDWARD MCPHERSON, LL. D.,

Clerk of United States House of Representatives.

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Political History of the United States during the Great Rebellion,

From November 6, 1860, to April 15, 1865, the date of the Death of Abraham Lincoln.

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By Hon. EDWARD MCPHERSON, LL. D.,

Clerk of the House of Representatives, U. S.

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