Giles County Registration (1866)
It is stated in Giles county only about eighty certificates of registration have been issued by the Commissioner. The impression is there will be but few more, if any, issued, form the fact that there is no ground upon which citizens can claim them except that of loyalty during the war – there having been no election in Giles county either in 1864 or spring of 1865.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 29 Sept. 1866, Page 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.