Statistics for occurrence #1 of “United States” in chapter 71 of Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7.:
...eunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this fifteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1863, and of the independence of the United States the eighty seventh. Abraham Lincoln. By the President: Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State.
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