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I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. - Abraham Lincoln Attribution: Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), U.S. president. letter to Joseph Hooker, Jan. 26, 1863. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 6, p. 78, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).

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