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[Identification of item], in the Leonidas Baugh Letters, #1813-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Baugh, Leonidas, fl. 1847-1859.
• Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863.
• Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875.
• Roads--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Virginia--Politics and government--1775-1865.
• Virginia. General Assembly--History--19th century.

Leonidas Baugh was editor of the Abingdon, Va., Democrat.

The collection contains letters to Baugh from John Buchanan Floyd (1806-1863), lawyer, Virginia legislator, governor, and President Buchanan's secretary of war, discussing the Virginia legislature and controversy over a plan to extend a macadamized road in southwestern Virginia; and from Andrew Johnson, written while he was a United States representative from Tennessee, concerning politics.