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Thereupon Mr. Stephens, in print, seized on July, and declared that, as he was a prisoner in Fort Warren during that month, the interview was a "Munchausenism."

From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Taylor, Richard

New-Yorkers have a story to tell of the winter just now dying, that will seem, perhaps, to the children of another generation like a pretty bit of Munchausenism.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by