Cabinet meets. Welles, Diary.

President receives telegram from Gen. Grant requesting prompt action in removing Gen. Butler from command. Benjamin F. Butler, Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences . . . Butler's Book (Boston: A. M. Thayer, 1892), 829.

Meets with Horace Greeley. Daily National Republican (Washington, DC), 6 January 1865, 3d ed., 2:1.

Deposits October salary warrant for $1,981.67 in Riggs Bank. Pratt, Personal Finances, 183.

Scolds Gen. Napoleon J. T. Dana for issuing order requiring affidavits of ownership and control over products transported under treasury regulations. Abraham Lincoln to Napoleon J. T. Dana, 6 January 1865, CW, 8:201-3.

Writes check to "Self" for $725.00. CW, 8:575.