Item Detail
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4202
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Illinois. Governor's troops (Volunteers)
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Insult to the governor! In publishing the following proceedings of the officers and men belonging to the detachment of volunteers now at Nauvoo, it is due to the respectable portion of the anti-Mormon party to say, that it is believed, they had nothing to do in the matter . . . All the printers in the state are respectfully invited to publish these proceedings, as a mere act of justice, to a man who has been much undeservedly persecuted, merely for the conscientious discharge of his duty
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[Nauvoo, Ill.?
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[1846]
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[1846]
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Broadside
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46 x 30cm
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Resolutions in defense of Governor Ford. 167 lines in 3 columns. Signed by the officers of Governor Thomas Ford's command, Nov. 7, 1846. Ford had taken charge of the troops in Nauvoo to restore order. There he was presented with a petticoat, a symbol of cowardice and this happening plus the profession of his troops' support is the subject of this broadside
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Byrd 1079
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ICHi, ICN, NjP, NN, UPB, USlC
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Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois; Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois; Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; New York Public Library, New York, New York; Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; Church Historical Department, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah