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Testimony of Elias Hill

Elias Hill (witness), Joint Select Committee (compiler)

About this source

A ten-page reproduction containing Elias Hill's July 25, 1871 Yorkville testimony, beginning at original printed page 1406.

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Where this source is used

  • Congressional testimony preserves named witnesses' accounts but was collected and published through a partisan congressional investigation, so individual testimony does not by itself establish statewide prevalence.

    • context · witness header and congressional volume provenance

  • Hill testified that he had served as a local Union League president and held political meetings at his house.

    • supports · original printed p. 1408

  • Elias Hill testified that masked assailants attacked and threatened him on 5 May 1871.

    • supports · witness header and original printed pp. 1407–1408

  • Hill testified that his assailants ordered him to stop a Republican newspaper, stop preaching, and renounce Republicanism publicly.

    • supports · original printed p. 1408