The third session of the 37th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC between December 1 and December 22, 1862
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The third "lame duck" session of the Thirty-seventh Congress of the United States was sitting in Washington. The House sat for only three weeks before its holiday recess starting on December 23, 1862. Galusha A. Grow of Pennsylvania was in the Speaker's chair. (By John Osborne)