January 15, 1862

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            <date value='1862-01-15'>Wednesday, January 15, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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President's nomination of 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>E. M. Stanton</person>
 for secretary of war 
confirmed by Senate.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 16 January 1862.</bibl>
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In evening Charles H. Upton, district commissioner, at White House by 
appointment; but leaves after long wait without seeing President.
<bibl default='NO'>Upton to Lincoln, 16 January 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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Lincoln writes Gen. Halleck: "This will introduce Gov. G. Koerner, of 
Illinois, who is my personal friend, and who calls on you at my 
particular request. Please open the sealed letter he will hand you 
before he leaves you and confer with him as to its contents." Lincoln 
proposes to make Koerner a brigadier general. "The Germans are true 
and patriotic, and so far as they have got cross in Missouri it is 
upon mistake and misunderstanding."
<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%3A220' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 15 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:99-100.</bibl>
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