January 30, 1861

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-01-30'>Wednesday, January
  30, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place> and <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p>In the morning, President-Elect Lincoln departs
  Springfield on the Great Western Railroad. He is traveling to visit his
  stepmother Sarah Bush Lincoln, "who resides near Charleston, in Coles county."
  A newspaper reports that Lincoln "expects to return" to Springfield on the
  evening of February 1.<bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Illinois Journal</title> (Springfield), 31
  January 1861, 2:1.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Arrives Charleston on freight train shortly
  after 6 P.M., having changed trains at Mattoon. <bibl default='NO'>Charles H. Coleman,
  <title>Abraham Lincoln and Coles County, Illinois</title> (New Brunswick, NJ:
  Scarecrow Press, 1955), 191.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>In the evening, Lincoln arrives in
  Charleston, where he spends the night at home of Illinois State Senator Thomas
  A. Marshall. Many friends visit with Lincoln during his stay. 
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois Journal</title> (Springfield), 2 February 1861, 2:3;
  Charles H. Coleman, <title>Abraham Lincoln and Coles County, Illinois</title>
  (New Brunswick, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1955), 209-10.</bibl> 
         </p>
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