Early in morning, Lincoln tells Orville H. Browning at White House that Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton has gone to see General Ulysses S. Grant about operations of J. W. Singleton. Browning, Diary.

Takes short carriage ride accompanied by Tad. Still feeble. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 17 March 1865, 2d ed., Extra, 2:4.

Writes Gov. John Evans (Colorado Terr.): "As you are Governor of the Territory of Colorado, and Hon. J. M. Ashley, of Ohio is, and probably will again be, Chairman of the Committee on Territories, of the H. R. there is no objection to your corresponding with him about territorial matters." Abraham Lincoln to John Evans, 16 March 1865, CW, 8:356.