Muster roll : manuscript, 1861.

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Muster roll : manuscript, 1861.

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Muster roll with printed introduction concerning the establishment of the Home Guard and its pro-Union stance; Davis is listed as "authorized to obtain such signatures hereto." The letter concerns political events in California prior to and during the Civil War, including the election of Abraham Lincoln, the initial secessions and the forming of the Montgomery Confederacy, the subsequent secessions and the forming of the Confederate States of America, the establishment by Union supporters of the San Francisco Home Guard, and other topics; and Davis's part in these events.

2 items; 40 and 28 cm.

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San Francisco (Calif.). Home Guard.

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Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932

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Davis, Horace, 1831-1916

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