January 13, 1862

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            <date value='1862-01-13'>Monday, January 13, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Cabinet in special meeting at 11
  A.M. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 13 January 1862.</bibl> 
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         <p>
  Lincoln names <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>E. M. Stanton</person> his secretary of war
  to succeed Simon Cameron. <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%3A214' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 11 January 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:96.</bibl> 
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         <p> Sends to
  Senate nomination of Cameron as minister to Russia. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 14
  January 1862.</bibl> 
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         <p> In afternoon convenes council of several
  generals, including Gen. McClellan, and cabinet members to discuss military
  plans. McClellan declines to give details of his plans for fear of leak;
  considers council military cabal against him. <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> 
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         <p> President
  Lincoln writes to Brigadier General Don C. Buell concerning military strategy,
  and states that although his suggestions are not "orders," he would like them
  to be "respectfully considered." Lincoln offers his assessment of the war: "We
  have the <uLine>greater</uLine> numbers, and the enemy has the
  <uLine>greater</uLine> facility of concentrating forces upon points of
  collision." Lincoln suggests that the Union forces pressure the enemy "at
  <uLine>different</uLine> points, at the <uLine>same time</uLine>; so that we
  can safely attack, one, or both, if he makes no change." <bibl default='NO'>Lincoln to Buell
  (copy), 13 January 1862, Edwin M. Stanton Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A217' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Don C. Buell</xref>, 13 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:98-99.</bibl> 
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