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Abraham Lincoln: “We all know where he went in at, but I can't tell where he will come out at.”

On the recordDecember 5, 1864
We all know where he went in at, but I can't tell where he will come out at.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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Remarks in Response to a Serenade

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