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President Lincoln authorized the Army to arrest suspicious persons without due process after Maryland rebels tried to cut off Washington, creating a Constitutional crisis over habeas corpus.
Abraham Lincoln understood the importance of being visually accessible, sitting for over a hundred portraits and working with numerous painters, sculptors, and illustrators.
John Glover and the men of Marblehead saved the Continental Army several times, and then helped it cross the Delaware to victory at Trenton and Princeton.
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