Statistics for occurrence #1 of “United States” in chapter 224, page 618 of Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5.:
...e United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this twenty-fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh. Abraham Lincoln. By the President. William H. Seward, Secretary of State.
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