Statistics for occurrence #1 of “William H. Seward” in chapter 205 of Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7.:
...his seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth. Abraham Lincoln. By the President. William H. Seward , Secretary of State.
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