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    <abstract id="aspace_52485eef283a57a76c2d8d82f0a324a2">Typescript of Dr. Richard Orr Curry's Ph.D. dissertation (1961). The dissertation was later published by the University of Pittsburgh Press as <title><part>A House Divided: A Study of Statehood Politics and the Copperhead Movement in West Virginia during the Civil War</part></title> (1964).</abstract>
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