| Tuesday, April 22, 1862.Washington,
DC. | Lincoln withdraws nomination of J. G. Berret for
commissioner to adjudicate claims of slaveowners in District of Columbia and
submits name of former Postmaster Gen. Horatio King. N.Y. Tribune, 22
April 1862; Philadelphia News, 25 April 1862;
Abraham
Lincoln to James G. Berret, 22 April 1862,
CW, 5:195-96. |