Lincoln receives Mrs. G. J. Laurence, of Philadelphia, who desires to have her nephew released from prison in Columbia S.C. Abraham Lincoln to Ethan A. Hitchcock, 31 December 1864, CW, 8:192.

Establishes offices to receive subscriptions to capital stock of Union Pacific Railroad. Order Designating Offices to Receive Subscriptions to Union Pacific Railroad, 31 December 1864, CW, 8:192-93.

Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles goes to White House with Commodore John Rodgers, who has a dispatch from Rear Admiral David D. Porter at Fort Fisher, N.C. Welles, Diary.

President reappoints members of Levy Court. Washington Chronicle, 1 January 1865.