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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC05987.32 |
From Archive Folder | Collection of Confederate Imprints and Broadsides |
Title | Declaration of Independence of the Sovereign State of Missouri |
Date | 5 August 1861 |
Author | Jackson, Claiborne Fox (1806-1862) |
Document Type | Broadside; Government document |
Content Description | Issued by the Confederate Governor of Missouri, Claiborne F. Jackson. Establishes a free and independent "Republic of Missouri." Calls for Missouri to secede from the United States and attacks Abraham Lincoln. |
Subjects | Civil War Military History Confederate States of America Secession Government and Civics President |
People | Jackson, Claiborne Fox (1806-1862) |
Place written | New Madrid, Missouri |
Theme | The American Civil War; The Presidency; Government & Politics |
Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |