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Woodbury / 1893.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36346687

Autobiography of Roger Woodbury, a newspaperman in Manchester, Hampshire and Denver, Colorado and a freemason. He was a member of the 3rd regiment of New Hampshire Infantry during the Civil War. Describes a political sermon by Baptist Elder F.W. Straight in favor of John C. Fremont, a hanging, the reaction of soldiers at the front to Lincoln's assassination, a Fourth of July celebration in 1889 at which William T. Sherman was the orator, and gives his views on the remonetization of silver in 1893.

2 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Connecticut Historical Society

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