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Abraham Lincoln: “Done at the city of Washington, this 15th day of June, A. D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the…”

On the recordJune 14, 1863
Done at the city of Washington, this 15th day of June, A. D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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Proclamation 102—Call for 100,000 Militia to Serve for Six Months

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