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Alexander Hamilton Stephens|Jefferson Davis|Robert Toombs|General P. G. T. Beauregard|Francis Wilkinson Pickens|Currier & Ives

Jeff Davis on His Own Platform, or the Last "Act of Secession"

1861–62
Lithograph
30 × 29 cm (11.8 × 11.4 in)

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