National Union Convention - Further Reading

Further Reading

  • McKitrick, Eric. Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction (1960) pp 394–420
  • Thomas Wagstaff. "The Arm-in-Arm Convention," Civil War History 1968 14(2): 101-119
  • The proceedings of the National union convention, held at Philadelphia, August 14, 1866 at Internet Archive. primary sources

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