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On the recordMarch 2, 1862
I transmit herewith a communication of the Secretary of War, inclosing a report of the Adjutant-General, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 22d of January, 1862.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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