Assoc. Justice David Davis discusses with Lincoln plan to send whole western military force down Mississippi. Davis to Lincoln, 15 November 1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Abraham Lincoln to Samuel Treat, 19 November 1862, CW, 5:501-2.

Hiram Barney consults with Lincoln about removals from office for political reasons. Barney to Lincoln, 18 November 1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

[John Hay is at Metropolitan hotel in New York. N.Y. Times, 16 November 1862.]