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Chapter 183
Message to the Senate
To the Senate of the United States:
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 19th instant requesting information concerning the quasi armistice alluded to in my message of the 4th instant, I transmit a report from the Secretary of the Navy.
A. LINCOLN. JULY 30, 1861