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In Ken Burns's The Civil War, it's mentioned that after South Carolina Senator Preston Brooks savagely beat abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner with his cane on the Senate floor, Senators began carrying knives and pistols to work. What sort of documentation do we have on this?

by /u/td4999 in /r/AskHistorians

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