11:30 A.M. President inquires of Gen. Burnside: "If I should be in a Boat off Aquia-Creek, at dark to-morrow (wednesday) evening, could you, without inconvenience, meet me & pass an hour or two with me?" Abraham Lincoln to Ambrose E. Burnside, 25 November 1862, CW, 5:511.

Interviews Samuel B. Ruggles, New York lawyer, politician, and railroad and bank director, regarding "active steps to favor N.Y." Bates, Diary, 24 November 1862.