President confers with Judge Adv. Gen. Holt in morning about courtmartial cases. Hay, Letters and Diary.

Recognizes J. H. Goebler, Jr., as consul of Prussia at Boston, Carl Meising as consul of Principality of Schaumburg Lippe for U.S., and Juan Pico y Villanueva as consul of Spain at New York. Washington Chronicle, 12 November 1863.

Thurlow Weed presents to President four-point plan concerning amnesty. Thurlow W. Barnes, ed., Life of Thurlow Weed including his Autobiography and a Memoir, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884), 2:438.