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Scope and Contents Poetry written circa 1870 about Dooley’s bunkmates and fellow prisoners at Johnson’s Island: “John Steptoe” (likely James Steptoe Johnston), Thomas Jefferson/Jefferson A. Waggener, Benjamin Bedford Brown, William Henry Keiningham, James Risque Hutter, Thomas Jabez Shine, John H. Moore, Benjamin Aaron Haskins, Thomas Holt White, and William S. Moore. Also “Lines Addressed to the Bronze Statue of the Goddess of Liberty Which Covers the Capitol’s Dome, Washington, DC” (1870), a...