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| | Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska - Douglas Co. - Omaha - Section 39 |
 | | Redick received twenty-two votes, including the solid vote of Douglas County, for Chief Justice for the Supreme Court of the State, in the Democratic State Convention, and it is said could have received the nomination, but his name was withdrawn, as he laced six years of the age required in the constitution. |
 | | The letter announcing the change in his political faith created, as may be imagined, great consternation in the ranks of the party, one of whose leaders in the State of Nebraska he had been for so many years, and wide comment generally. |
 | | In 1863 he enlisted in the United States Navy as an ordinary seaman on the Dakota for seven months, and was transferred to the Gettysburg, one of the blockading fleet on the coast of North Carolina, and was engaged in the first attack on Fort Fisher. |
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