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Mississippi Confederate Broadside

MISSISSIPPI - W. A. LAKE. To the Voters of the Fourth Congressional District of Mississippi.

Vicksburg: 13 August 1861. Broadside (360 x 195 mm). Text in three columns. Signed in print by Lake. Provenance: N. A. Sake? (contemporary signature in the upper margin). unrecorded mississippi confederate broadside and a rare piece of confederate election ephemera. Lake (1808-1861) published this broadside as part of his campaign to be elected to the Confederate Congress. The speech calls for strong resistance to the Union army, praises the success at Manassas and suggests means to raise money to fund the war. Two months after this broadside, on 15 October 1861, Lake would be killed in a duel with his opponent in this race. Not listed in Parrish & Willingham or Hummel.