In morning Lincoln meets with General Ambrose E. Burnside. Daily National Republican (Washington, DC), 14 November 1864, 2d ed., 2:5.

President accepts resignation of General George B. McClellan and appoints General Philip Sheridan to rank of major general. Washington Chronicle, 16 November 1864.

O. H. Browning at White House in evening learns that President has not started on his Message to Congress. Browning, Diary.

Lincoln writes Gen. Hurlbut: "Few things, since I have been here, have impressed me more painfully than what, for four or five months past, has appeared as bitter military opposition to the new State Government of Louisiana." Abraham Lincoln to Stephen A. Hurlbut, 14 November 1864, CW, 8:106-8.