| Thursday, November 6, 1862.Washington,
DC. | Sec. Chase at White House in morning reads to
President letter from Gen. Butler regarding wages of Negroes at New Orleans.
Abraham
Lincoln to Benjamin F. Butler, 6 November 1862,
CW, 5:487-88. F. P.
Blair, Sr., interviews President for purpose of retaining Gen. McClellan in
command of Army of Potomac. William E. Smith, The Francis Preston
Blair Family in Politics, 2 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1933),
2:144. Cong. Odell (N.Y.) visits White House at request of
President. Odell to Lincoln, 5 November 1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
DC. |