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SSgt Robert Marx
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Pres. Lincoln set the bar for caring for the many casualties that resulted from the Civil War.
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LTC Stephen F.
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Thanks for reminding us TSgt Joe C. that on May 19, 1864 President Abraham Lincoln wrote to anti-slavery Congressional leader Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts on this day in 1864, proposing that widows and children of soldiers should be given equal treatment regardless of race.
At the time this was a radical idea, even in the north.
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