"THIS IS WHERE THE LAUGH COMES IN."  
 
 
Vanity Fair		  
May 24, 1862
   
 
 
A year ago, when Mr. Lincoln issued his proclamation for 75,000 soldiers, it was read in the Rebel Congress, “amid jeers and laughter.”
  
 
 

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