| Sunday, January 10, 1864.Washington,
DC. | President consults with Sec. Welles, F. P. Blair,
Sr., and former Gov. Dennison (Ohio) regarding presidential campaign.
William F. Zornow, Lincoln and the Party Divided (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1954), 41. Authorizes and directs
Gen. Hitchcock to offer Gen. Trimble, prisoner of war in Fort McHenry, Md. in
exchange for Maj. [probably Harry] White, prisoner at Richmond. Abraham
Lincoln to Ethan A. Hitchcock, 10 January 1864,
CW, 7:119-20. |