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GALE AND POLK FAMILY PAPERS, #266, 1815-1940
Family and military papers of the Gale family of Jefferson and Yazoo Counties, Mississippi, and Davidson County, Tennessee, and of the Polk family of Raleigh, North Carolina; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Sewanee, Tennessee. The collection includes information on runaway slaves and the loyalty of slaves during the Civil War and of freedmen afterwards.
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