| Wednesday, October 22, 1862.Washington, DC and
Alexandria, VA. | President
and party reach Alexandria, Va., about 2:30 P.M. aboard steamer
Mount Washington, to review General Sickle's division
near contraband camp. Returns at dusk. Evening
Star (Washington, DC), 23 October 1862, 3d ed., 3:1.
President directs Secretary of War Edwin
M. Stanton to stop individuals from imposing terms on purchase of
cotton not contained in government regulations. Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M.
Stanton, 22 October 1862, CW,
5:472. |