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On the recordMay 20, 1862
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, requesting information in regard to arrests in the State of Kentucky, I transmit a report from the Secretary of War, to whom the resolution was referred.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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