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Grover Cleveland: “It is hardly possible that an injury of this kind, producing the consequences which it is alleged followed its…”

On the recordApril 20, 1888
It is hardly possible that an injury of this kind, producing the consequences which it is alleged followed its infliction, could have been sustained by this soldier and not in the least interrupted the performance of his military service.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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