January 10, 1862

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            <date value='1862-01-10'>Friday, January 10, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Cabinet meets. Atty. Gen. Bates complains that
  administration is not assuming strong enough stand in eliminating confusion. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  President transmits to Congress Austrian documents relating to "Trent" affair. 
  <bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 15 January 1862;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A212' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 10 January 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:95-96.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Recognizes
  C. F. Adac as consul of Dukedom of Saxe-Meiningen for Western U.S. 
  <bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 15 January 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews Rev.
  Thomas K. Beecher, brother of better-known Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman,
  reformer, and abolitionist. <bibl default='NO'>Robbins to Lincoln, 10 January 1862, Robert
  Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Consults with Thurlow Weed regarding reputation
  of Sec. Cameron and his removal from cabinet. <bibl default='NO'>Thurlow W. Barnes, ed.,
  <title>Life of Thurlow Weed including his Autobiography and a Memoir</title>, 2
  vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884), 2:330-31.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> "President
  comes to me [Gen. Meigs] much depressed re inactivity of army and McClellan's
  sickness. 'The people are impatient; Chase has no money, and he tells me he can
  raise no money; the Gen. of the Army has typhoid fever. The bottom is out of
  the tub. What shall I do?' " <bibl default='NO'>Diary, Montgomery C. Meigs Papers, Library
  of Congress, Washington, DC; Montgomery C. Meigs, "Documents: General M. C.
  Meigs on the Conduct of the Civil War," <title>American Historical
  Review</title> 26 (January 1921):292.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President summons Gens.
  McDowell and Franklin, Secs. Seward and Chase, and Asst. Sec. Scott to "Council
  of War" at 8 P.M. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 3 November 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Writes Cameron: "The within is a copy of a letter just received from General
  Halleck. It is exceedingly discouraging. As everywhere else, nothing can be
  done." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A211' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 10 January 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:95.</bibl> 
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