Abraham Lincoln actually said...

I return thanks to our soldiers for the good services they have rendered, the energy they have shown, the hardships they have endured, and the blood they have shed for this Union of ours;

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Remarks to the Army of the Potomac at Frederick, Maryland

10/03/1862

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