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Sources consulted for the biography of:John C. Underwood (1809–1873)
Biographical Information
- Lucien Marcus Underwood, The Underwood Families of America, 2 vols. (1913), 1:375–377, with names of parents and date of birth.
- Fauquier County Marriage Bonds and Returns Book 5 (1830–1849), 185, Library of Virginia.
- Marriage recorded in Alexandria Gazette, November 9, 1839
- Correspondence and scrapbooks in John C. Underwood Papers, 1856–1898, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- John C. Underwood Papers, Robert A. Brock Collection, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, microfilm in Library of Virginia (Accession 41008).
- Patricia P. Hickin, "John Curtis Underwood and the Antislavery Crusade, 1809–1860" (M.A. thesis, University of Virginia, 1961).
- Patricia Hickin, "John C. Underwood and the Antislavery Movement in Virginia, 1847–1860," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 73 (1965): 156–168.
Primary Sources
- Speech of John C. Underwood, at Alexandria, Va., July 4, 1863 (1863), first quotation on 5, second and third quotations on 6.
- Records of the United States Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Record Group 21, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, 39th Cong., 1st sess., 1866, House Rept. 30, serial 1273, appended testimony, pt. 2, pp. 6–10 (fourth quotation on 7).
- The Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia, Assembled at the City of Richmond, Tuesday, December 3, 1867 (1868), esp. 7–8, 349, 425, 458–468 (tenth quotation on 458, eleventh quotation on 467), 527–528, 711 (ninth quotation).
Secondary Sources
- Patricia P. Hickin, "Antislavery in Virginia" (Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1968), esp. 617–750.
- Richard G. Lowe, "The Republican Party in Antebellum Virginia, 1856–1860," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 81 (1973): 259–279.
Newspapers
- New-York Daily Tribune, October 23, 1860
- Norfolk Post, October 2, 1865 (Underwood letter to Bayne)
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, May 7, 1867 (eighth quotation)
- New York Times, July 28, 1867 (fifth, sixth, and seventh quotations); January 10, 1869 (twelfth and thirteenth quotations); February 18, 1869 (fourteenth quotation)
Obituaries
- Washington, D.C., Evening Star, December 8, 1873
- Washington, D.C., New National Era and Citizen, December 18, 1873
- New York Christian Union, January 7, 1874
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