January 09, 1862

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            <date value='1862-01-09'>Thursday, January 9, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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President and John Nicolay are at Capitol attending to public business.
<bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 10 January 1862.</bibl>
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Lincoln writes Gen. McClellan: "I think you better go before the 
Congressional Committee the earliest moment your health will 
permit&#8212;to-day, if possible." Also: "I send the within copy of 
dispatch from Gen. Buell, with the remark that neither he nor Halleck 
meets my request to name the day when they can be ready to move."
<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%3A208' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 9 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:94; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A209' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 9 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:94.</bibl>
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