Letter : War Department, Washington City, D.C., to [Congressman] Isaac Arnold, 1863 Feb. 3.

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Letter : War Department, Washington City, D.C., to [Congressman] Isaac Arnold, 1863 Feb. 3.

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Reply to Congressman Arnold regarding the acceptance of the Garibaldi Legion under Captain Stefani for service in the Union Army. "The President has no authority under existing laws to receive foreign troops; so that the troops ... cannot be accepted into the service of the United States without the express sanction of an Act of Congress."

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