President sends order through Gen. Canby at New Orleans to Rear Adm. Farragut at Mobile Bay: "Do not, on any account, or on any showing of authority whatever, from whomsoever purporting to come, allow the blockade to be violated." Abraham Lincoln to David G. Farragut, 11 November 1864, CW, 8:103-4.

Writes Sec. Seward at Auburn, N.Y.: "Nothing of much importance." Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward, 6 November 1864, CW, 8:94.