| Tuesday, February 25, 1862.Washington,
DC. | Cabinet meets and discusses paroling prisoners of
war. Bates, Diary.
President approves Treasury Note (Legal Tender) Bill that results in issuance
of "Greenbacks." N.Y. Times, 26 February 1862. Gen. Butler calls on Lincoln before leaving Washington for Ship
Island, Miss., and New Orleans. President tells him to get into New Orleans and
thus break back of rebellion. Rice, 142. Consults with
Committee on Conduct of War in evening and hears its recommendations that Army
of Potomac be divided into corps. Committee on Conduct of War,
Report (1863), 1:86-87. Transmits to Congress Russian documentation relative to "Trent" affair.
Abraham
Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives, 25 February 1862,
CW, 5:137. |