President receives warning from Cong. Washburne (Ill.) that troop movements are being misrepresented. Washburne to Lincoln, 29 October 1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

[Mrs. Lincoln in New York requisitions $200 from special fund and gives it to Mrs. Elizabeth Keckley, her Negro dressmaker and confidant, to aid Contraband Association. Mrs. Lincoln to President, 3 November 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.]