Lincoln confers with Mayor Richard Wallach (Washington), president of council, and special committee about construction of railroad from Point of Rocks, Md., to Washington. Philadelphia News, 1 November 1862; Petition, 28 October 1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

President recognizes Samuel W. F. Odell as consul general of the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands for the United States. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 3 November 1862, 2d ed., 2:3.