February 04, 1862

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            <date value='1862-02-04'>Tuesday, February 4, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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President grants Capt. Gordon stay of execution until February 21, 1862.
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               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A273' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Stay of Execution for Nathaniel Gordon</xref>, 4 February 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:128-29.</bibl>
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[Gordon was hanged February 21, 1862.] Recommends "that Captain 
Samuel F. DuPont [USN] receive a vote of thanks of Congress for his 
services and gallantry, displayed in the capture of Forts Walker and 
Beauregard."
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               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A272' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 4 February 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:127-28.</bibl>
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[Irwin withdraws $2 from Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 177.</bibl>]
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            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> cancels weekly reception because of private party on 5th.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 1 February 1862.</bibl>
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