Template:Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 16

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1862: "We are coming, Father Abraham, Thee Hundred Thousand More" appears in the Saturday Evening Post. Written by James Sloan, the marching song was intended to help raise volunteers following Abraham Lincoln's request to Congress that it increase the size of the Union Army to 500,000 men.

1866: Congress overrides Andrew Johnson's veto of the Freedman's Bureau bill.