Chicago conspiracy trial scrapbook, 1865.

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Chicago conspiracy trial scrapbook, 1865.

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Chicago conspiracy trial. Camp Douglas. Newspaper clippings comprising the original reports of the trial as they appeared in the Cincinnati and Chicago papers in the first months of 1865.

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