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<date value='1862-01-20'>Monday, January 20, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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President signs appointment of
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>E. M. Stanton</person>
as secretary of war.
<bibl default='NO'>William D. Kelley, <title>Lincoln and Stanton: A Study of the War Administration of 1861 and 1862: with Special Consideration of Some Recent Statements of Gen. George B. McClellan</title> (New York: Putnam, 1885), 17.</bibl>
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Receives written protest from committee representing 14th Brooklyn
Regiment against change in number to 84th.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 21 January 1862.</bibl>
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