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January 22, 1862

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Wednesday, January 22, 1862.
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President sends letters of sympathy and congratulation to King of Portugal: sympathy at death of brothers, congratulation on accession to throne and marriage of sister. Abraham Lincoln to Luiz I, 22 January 1862, CW, 5:104-5; Abraham Lincoln to Luiz I, 22 January 1862, CW, 5:105.

Interviews Mrs. Schermerhorn and son regarding appointment to Military Academy. Seward to Lincoln, 21 January 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Committee of New York Germans calls on President in protest against treatment of Gen. Franz Sigel. N.Y. Tribune, 23 January 1862; Card of admission, 22 January 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

California delegation in Congress presents portrait of late Col. Baker to Lincoln as gift from William B. Farwell of San Francisco. Phelps to Lincoln, 22 January 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Lincoln transmits to Senate articles of agreement with Ponca tribe of Indians. Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, [22] January 1862, CW, 5:106-7.

In evening witnesses another exhibition of Greek Fire shells on grounds south of White House. National Intelligencer, 23 January 1862.

In a letter to the Secretary of the War Edwin M. Stanton, President Lincoln rejects Stanton's suggestion to have "the Adjutant General [Lorenzo Thomas]...attend me wherever I go." Lincoln writes, "[I]t would be an uncompensating incumbrance both to him and me. When it shall occur to me to go anywhere, I wish to be free to go at once...It is better too, for the public service, that he shall give his time to the business of his office, and not to personal attendance on me." Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 22 January 1862, CW, 5:108.

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         <p> President sends
  letters of sympathy and congratulation to King of Portugal: sympathy at death
  of brothers, congratulation on accession to throne and marriage of sister. 
  <bibl default='NO'>
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  Lincoln to Luiz I</xref>, 22 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:104-5;
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  Lincoln to Luiz I</xref>, 22 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:105.</bibl> 
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         <p> Interviews Mrs.
  Schermerhorn and son regarding appointment to Military Academy. <bibl default='NO'>Seward to
  Lincoln, 21 January 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Committee of New
  York Germans calls on President in protest against treatment of Gen. Franz
  Sigel. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 23 January 1862; Card of admission, 22 January 1862,
  John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  California delegation in Congress presents portrait of late Col. Baker to
  Lincoln as gift from William B. Farwell of San Francisco. <bibl default='NO'>Phelps to
  Lincoln, 22 January 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln transmits
  to Senate articles of agreement with Ponca tribe of Indians. <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%3A238' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, [22] January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:106-7.</bibl> 
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         <p> In evening
  witnesses another exhibition of Greek Fire shells on grounds south of White
  House. <bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 23 January 1862.</bibl> 
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         <p> In a
  letter to the Secretary of the War <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Edwin M.
  Stanton</person>, President Lincoln rejects Stanton's suggestion to have "the
  Adjutant General [Lorenzo Thomas]...attend me wherever I go." Lincoln writes,
  "[I]t would be an uncompensating incumbrance both to him and me. When it shall
  occur to me to go anywhere, I wish to be free to go at once...It is better too,
  for the public service, that he shall give his time to the business of his
  office, and not to personal attendance on me." <bibl default='NO'>
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  Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 22 January 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:108.</bibl> 
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