| Sunday, December 1, 1861.Washington,
DC. | Sen. Sumner (Mass.) consults again with President
on "Trent" affair. Pierce, Sumner Memoir
and Letters, 4:52. Lincoln explains his ideas of
compensated emancipation in talk with Sen. Browning (Ill.). Browning,
Diary. Completes work
on first Annual Message to Congress. N.Y. Times, 2
December 1861. Sends memorandum on movement of Army of Potomac
to Gen. McClellan. Memorandum
to George B. McClellan on Potomac Campaign, [c. 1 December 1861],
CW, 5:34-35. |