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Letter from Iowa Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Abraham Lincoln protesting the actions of General Willis A. Gorman who would not allow Iowa Colonel William T. Shaw to enlist African-American troops in Arkansas as commanded by General Samuel R. Curtis, commander of the Department of the Missouri, in compliance with a recent Union law. Kirkwood frames his protest in the context of the need for officers to implement the recent Emancipation Proclamation unconditionally and in the spirit of declaration in order for it to have full effect. February 2, 1863.
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