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Sources consulted for the biography of:Edward Nelson (fl. 1867–1869)
Primary Sources
- J. R. Stone to George Q. White, 26 Sept. 1867, in Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia (1865–1872), Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, M1913, Roll 26, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Convention of 1867–1868
- Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia [1868], 29, 216, 253.
- Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia (1868), 652 (quotation).
- Richard G. Lowe, "Virginia's Reconstruction Convention: General Schofield Rates the Delegates," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1972): 351.
- Richard L. Hume, "The Membership of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868: A Study of the Beginnings of Congressional Reconstruction in the Upper South," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86 (1978): 483.
Newspapers
- Edward Nelson and Joseph R. Holmes letter to editor, Daily Richmond Whig, June 27, 1867.
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, April 18, 1867; October 24, 1867; March 17, 1868; January 11, 13, 15, 1869; March 4, 1869; May 11, 1869.
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