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One of the greatest perplexities of the Government is to avoid receiving troops faster than it can provide for them. In a word, the people will save their Government if the Government itself will do its part only indifferently well.

— Abraham Lincoln Fourth of July Address to Congress (1861)

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Without the military help of the black freedman, the war against the South could not have been won.

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Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

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