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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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