February 01, 1862

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            <date value='1862-02-01'>Saturday, February 1, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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         <p>
Lincoln writes letter of sympathy to Queen Victoria of England on 
death of husband.
<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%3A265' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Queen Victoria</xref>, 1 February 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:117-18.</bibl>
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         <p>
Discusses with Sec. Seward and Cong. Ely (N.Y.), recently in prison 
in Richmond, advisability of placing Confederate privateers detained 
in New York and Philadelphia harbors on footing of prisoners of war.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 3 February 1862.</bibl>
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         <p>
Directs U.S. Marshal for District of Columbia to refrain from 
arresting or committing fugitive slaves.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 1 February 1862.</bibl>
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         <p>
In afternoon Seward escorts Baron F. von Gerolt, Prussian minister, 
to White House for ceremonial call on President.
<bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 1 February 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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         <p>
President sends for Asst. Sec. Fox, who arrives after dinner.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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