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AHA Teaching & Learning Teaching Resources for Historians Sixteen Months to Sumter Newspaper Index Nashville Daily Patriot

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Nashville Daily Patriot, Tennessee

  • The Country Wants Peace, and the Country Must Have Peace--An Appeal to All Lovers of the Union of All Sections and Parties

    July 25, 1860

  • Something for All Patriots to Read and Ponder

    September 19, 1860

  • To the Friends of the Constitution and the Union

    October 13, 1860

  • Stop and Think--What Is Secession?

    November 19, 1860

  • The Progress of the Presidents

    February 16, 1861

  • Tennessee and the War Question

    April 12, 1861

  • The Progress of Revolution--The Duty of Tennessee

    April 24, 1861

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