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Bill Taft: “Hitherto our national policy has assumed that at the outbreak of war our regiments would be immediately raised to full…”

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Hitherto our national policy has assumed that at the outbreak of war our regiments would be immediately raised to full strength.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Taft reflects on the national policy regarding troop strength at the onset of war.

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