Speech [sound recording], 1956.

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Speech [sound recording], 1956.

A speech by Thomas entitled "A Wisconsin Newsman with Grant," on the war correspondent and former editor of the Milwaukee Daily News, Sylvanus Cadwallader, who travelled with General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War; delivered at the Founders' Day dinner of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

2 tape recordings.

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