The American union, containing orations and speeches, sketches of the progress and history of the rebellion and civil war, commenced in the year 1861, romantic and interesting tales, choice literature, historical and instructive reading matter for the people...
Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1861, author long deceased · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/06045240); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)
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