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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in 1874 was as follows: The farmer purchased an old mule on credit and rented land on shares, or for so many bales of cotton; any old tools were used; corn, bacon, and other supplies were bought on credit, and a lien given on the crop; a month later, corn and cotton were planted...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bully for Alabama!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Loil Legislature," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain, John, Mr. Jones," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the bonds of all" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "whites in case Seymour were elected. The Union League whipped the negroes into line. Brass bands lent enthusiasm to Radical parades. The negroes were afraid that they would" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Unionist." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The negroes had been taught to distrust scalawags, as being little better than Democrats. Smith was asked why he ran on a ticket with a negro. He replied that now that was the only way to get office. He also called attention to the fact that in north Alabama the Democrats drew t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I would rather not tell my military history, for there was very little glory in it.... I do not know that I can say much about my soldiering." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fellow-citizens, they are as pure, as spotless, as stainless, as the immaculate Son of God." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the negro members of the legislature. But of those who voted for Spencer in the Radical" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Grant is scared and will do what we want." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Spell _damned rascal_. It would be spelled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Spell _damned Radical_. That would be spelled." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They are nearly alike, aren't they?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When the Jacobins say and do low and bitter things, their charge of want of loyalty in the South because our people grumble back a little seems to me as unreasonable as the complaint of the little boy: 'Mamma, make Bob 'have hisself. He makes mouths at me every time I hit him wi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "was a low shop or store where a white thief encouraged black people to steal all kinds of farm produce and exchange it with him for bad whiskey, bad candy, brass jewellery, etc. This evil was found all over the state where there were ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Equal Rights Union, was held in Montgomery in January, 1874. The resolutions adopted demanded that the blacks have first choice of the nominations in black counties and a proportional share in all other counties. They expressed themselves as opposed to the efforts of the carpet-...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Strobach traitors and too few Republicans. As leader of the regular organization Strobach had considerable influence in spite of these charges, and his enemies undertook to form a new organization. The leaders of the bolters, known as the Robinson faction, were Busteed, Buckley,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and offenders were sure of expulsion from church unless, as happened sometimes, the bolters were strong enough to turn the Republicans out. Nearly every church had its political club to which the men belonged and sometimes the women. Robert Bennett of Lee County related his expe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Old Whig protested in the _Opelika Daily Times_ of June 6, 1874, against the rule of the mob of 80,000 yelling negroes who, at scalawag mandate, and in the name of liberty, deposited ballots against southern white men. Another writer d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "declared that the issue was" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "; that if the whites were defeated, the county would no longer be endurable and would be abandoned to the blacks; that a conflict of races would be deplorable, but that the whites must protect themselves, and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our beloved state has been free from pestilence, floods, and extensive disasters to labor. [2144] As a matter of fact, there had been the regular spring freshets, but there were no sufferers. The loss fell upon the planters, who were under contract to furnish food, stock, and im...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you will come along and do right, you will get two or three shoulders." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We especially urge upon you carefully to avoid all injuries to others while you are attempting to preserve your own rights. Let our people avoid all just causes of complaint. Turmoil and strife with those who oppose us in this contest will only weaken the moral force of our effo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in Alabama. The most comprehensive" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "story was that of Charles Hays, member of Congress, published in the famous" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hays-Hawley letter of September 7, 1874. Hays had borne a bad character in Alaba...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In white districts some obnoxious speakers were" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "others forbidden to speak and asked to leave. One Radical speaker complained that whites in numbers came to hear him, sat on the front seats with guns across their knees, blew tin horns, a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The negro was killed. A conflict at Belmont, where a negro was killed, and another at Gainesville were probably caused by the endeavor of the whites to exclude negroes who had been imported from Mississippi. By rioting the Republicans had everything to gain and the Democrats eve...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lily White faction which demanded that the negro be dropped as a campaign issue and that an attempt be made to build up a decent white Republican party. The opposing faction has been called" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Black and Tans, and has held to the negro....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "methods to prevent a return to the intolerable conditions of Reconstruction. The people grew weary of the eternal" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and a demand arose for a revision of the constitution in order to eliminate the mass of the negro voters, to do away with ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Barbour County Fever," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Black Code, or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Black Laws," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Black Republican" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Condition of Affairs in the South," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Conquered province" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Convention" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cotton is King," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Deadfalls," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Disintegration and absorption" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forfeited rights" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Forty acres and a mule," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Freedmen's Home Colonies," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Union" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Union" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Independents" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Iron-clad" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "King Cotton," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Loyalists," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "National Guards," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peace Society man, 143, 147, 343; provisional governor, 350, 353; elected to U. S. Senate, 374; speaks in the North, 392, 401; advises rejection of Fourteenth Amendment, 396; originates" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "White Man's Movement," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pike County Platform," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Political bacon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lily Whites and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Black and Tans," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Restoration," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Union" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Southern outrages," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Southern theory" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Southern Unionists'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "State Suicide" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hays-Hawley letter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Union" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "White Man's Government," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "White man's party," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Social Relations ; Hodgson," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cradle of the Confederacy, Ch. 1; Garrett," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Reminiscences, Ch. 1; Miller's and Brown's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Histories of Alabama, _passim_; Sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cradle of the Confederacy, Chs. 2, 4, 6, 8; DuBose," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Life of William L. Yancey ; Phillips," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Georgia and State Rights, Chs. 2, 3; Pickett," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alabama," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alabama," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alabama Platform" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Debates of 1861." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Underground Railroad, pp. 119, 160, 167, 195; Hinton," }, { "from": "human", "value": "John Brown ; Hague," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Blockaded Family. As early as 1835 incendiary literature ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Debates," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There will be no war. But if there should be, we can whip the Yankees with popguns. After the war, when he had turned" }, { "from": "human", "value": "he was taken to task for the speech." }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The American Conflict," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Authorities for the political history of Alabama before 1860: Hodgson's" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cradle of the Confederacy ; Garrett's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Reminiscences o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Unionists," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No state shall without the consent of Congress enter into any agreement or compact with another state," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Debates ; Hodgson's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cradle of the Confederacy ; DuBose's" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yancey ; Wilmer's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Recent Past." }, { "from": "human", "value": "History of Alab...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. I, p. 277; Miller, p. 160;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Battles and Leaders, II, p. 706. A former" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Union man declared after the war that the barbarities of Turchin crushed out the remai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alabama." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alabama" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Life of Forrest," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Life of Forrest, pp. 185-222; Mathes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "General Forrest," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Life of Forrest," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The South," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The South," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "History of Selma, p. 51; Miller," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Alabama, pp. 221-226; Parsons, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The South Since the War," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "County Notes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Public Men." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "History of Selma," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The South," }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Regimental Histories." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Story of the Confederate States ; Southern Hist. Soc. Papers, Vol. VI; Brewer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alabama," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Regimental Histories ; Miller," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "History of Alabama, p. 375; B...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rebellion Record," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rebellion Record," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Civil History of the Confederate States," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Four Years in Rebel Capitals." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Civil History," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One leg too short, and was at once excused by the Board. The next man had no excuse whatever, but he had seen how Smith's excuse worked, so he wrote," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Both legs too short, but he had to go to Mobile." }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Civil History," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Civil History," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "cavalry, carried to Camp Watts, at Notasulga, and enrolled as a conscript, no attention being paid to his furlough. To Camp Watts were brought daily squads of conscripts, rounded up by the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "cavalry. They were guarded by conscripts. When ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Railroads and Highways, in the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Memorial Record of Alabama," }, { "from": "human", "value": "History and Debates of the Convention of 1861 ; Hodgson," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cradle of the Confederacy ; Garr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Northern Alabama Illustrated, p. 47; Ku Klux Rept. Ala. Test., pp. 592, 824; Saunders," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Early Settlers ; Brewer," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Alabama, p. 65; Garrett," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Public Men ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Avalanche from the way it overran the Whiggish counties of the southern and central sections. This was shown in the convention, where representation was based on the white vote. Since the war representation in the conventions is based on population, and the Black Belt has co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After the War, pp. 348-350; Saunders," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Early Settlers, pp. 115, 164; Jones," }, { "from": "human", "value": "A Rebel War Clerk's Diary," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War, p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Confederate Military History," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Southern States since the War, p. 135; _Montgomery Advertiser_, Aug. 17, 1902; _N. Y. Tribune_, Feb. 10, 1865; Freemantle," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Three Months in the Southern States." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Rebellion Record," }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mark Twain." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Debates," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Public Men of Alabama," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Alabama," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Northern Alabama Illustrated, p. 327; Acts of Alabama, 1862, p. 225; Moore," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Confederate Military History," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Confederate Military History," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lost Cause," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yancey," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "was a person who secured a safe position in order to keep out of service in the field. A" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Political History of Alabama, in" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Memorial Record of Alabama," }, { "from": "human", "value": "A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, Vol. I, pp. 250, 335, 391; Schwab," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Confederate States," },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rebellion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Confederate Military History" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alabama," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lincoln, Vol. VIII, pp. 410-415; McPherson," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rebellion," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Confederate Military History," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alabama, pp. 548, 660;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Confederate Military History --Alabama, see Index. Bradley was a north Alabama man who had gone over to the enemy to save his property. This was his chief claim to notoriety. He became a prominent" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "History of Alabama, p. 158; Davis," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Confederate Government," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Southern Hist. Soc. Papers," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "History of Alabama, pp. 180, 181; Davis, Vol. I, pp. 480, 481; Hardy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "History of Selma, pp. 46, 47; _N. Y. Times_, Nov. 2, 1865 (Truman); O. R., Ser. IV, Vol. III,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Santa Cave." } ]