<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-01-01'>Thursday, January 1, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Gen. Burnside consults with President and restates part of 
conversation in letter: "Doubtless this difference of opinion between 
my general officers and myself results from a lack of confidence in 
me. . . . It is my belief that I ought to retire to private life."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A55' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 1 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:31-33.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
New Year's Day reception at White House begins at 11 A.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 2 January 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Army officers assemble at War Dept. and attend reception in body.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Public reception begins at 12 M. and lasts until 2 P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Notes, 1 January 1863, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Welles exchanges greetings with President and colleagues at 
Executive Mansion.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At noon Sec. Seward and Asst. Sec. Seward take official copy of 
Emancipation Proclamation to room in White House where cabinet meets. 
Shortly afterward President signs it.
<bibl default='NO'>Frederick W. Seward, <title>Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, 1830-1915.  By Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary of State during the Administrations of Lincoln, Johnson, and Hayes</title> (New York: Putnam, 1916), 227.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
After White House reception Lincoln goes to telegraph office in War 
Dept., settles at Maj. Eckert's desk, puts feet on nearby table, and 
relaxes in conversation with Gen. Halleck and Asst. Sec. Fox.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph Office</title>, 143.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Prepares instructions for Gen. Halleck to visit Burnside's 
headquarters and pass judgment on plan to move army across 
Rappahannock, then withdraws instructions because considered harsh by 
Halleck.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A55' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 1 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:31-33.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Directs 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 to investigate "piteous appeal . . . made . . . 
by an old lady" who had been ordered to evacuate her boarding house.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A56' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 1 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:33.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-01-02'>Friday, January 2, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
George P. Strong, resident of St. Louis, delivers to President letter 
from Gen. Curtis regarding order to exile Rev. McPheeters.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A57' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel R. Curtis</xref>, 2 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:33-34.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. Butler at White House in evening for conference.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 3 January 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Says President asks him to go to Mississippi and organize Negro troops.
<bibl default='NO'>Benjamin F. Butler, <title>Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences . . . Butler's Book</title> (Boston: A. M. Thayer, 1892), 549-50.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President submits to Congress expediency of appointing an acting head 
of government department.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A58' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 2 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:34-35.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-01-03'>Saturday, January 3, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sen. Browning (Ill.) confers with President about Confederates 
attacking Fortress Monroe, Va.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Prof. Benjamin N. Martin, "University of the City of New York," calls 
on Lincoln regarding restoration of Gen. Benham's commission.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A60' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 3 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:35.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President sends to Senate convention for adjustment of claims between 
U.S. and Ecuador.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A61' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 3 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:35-36.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives word that U.S.S. "Monitor" has foundered in gale off Cape 
Hatteras, N.C.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 4 January 1863, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Committee composed of Giles F. Filley, merchant, and James E. 
Yeatman, banker, of St. Louis presents memorial of citizens asking 
relief for Rev. McPheeters.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A57' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel R. Curtis</xref>, 2 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:33-34.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln responds to appeal: "Let this woman have her boy out of Old 
Capitol Prison."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A59' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement</xref>, 3 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:35.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-01-04'>Sunday, January 4, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Cesar J. Kaskel, sponsored by Cong. John A. Gurley
  (Ohio), interviews Lincoln regarding order issued by Gen. Grant expelling Jews
  from Military Department of Tennessee. <bibl default='NO'>Bertram W. Korn, <title>American
  Jewry and the Civil War</title> (Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society
  of America, 1951), 125.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> James M. Winchell, newspaper
  correspondent, interviews President on Battle of Stone's River. <bibl default='NO'>J. M.
  Winchell, "Three Interviews with President Lincoln," <title>Galaxy</title> 16
  (July 1873):33-34.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln attends New York Avenue Presbyterian
  Church and drives Sen. Browning (Ill.) home. <bibl default='NO'>Browning,
  <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Authorizes Sec.
  Welles to hear and to judge applications for permission to move families and
  property to protection within Union lines. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A62' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Gideon Welles</xref>, 4 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:36.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-01-05'>Monday, January 5, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President transmits to House of Representatives report regarding 
interference of U.S. minister to Mexico in favor of French.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A66' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 5 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:38-39.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Congratulates Gen. William S. Rosecrans on victory in Battle of 
Murfreesboro (Stone's River): "God bless you, and all with you!"
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A67' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William S. Rosecrans</xref>, 5 January 186[3], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:39.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sen. Harlan (Iowa) visits President and delivers communication from 
Religious Society of Friends of Prairie Grove, Ark.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A68' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Caleb Russell and Sallie A. Fenton</xref>, 5 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:39-40.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Missouri congressman lay before President request that practice of 
assessments be discontinued.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A63' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel R. Curtis</xref>, 5 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:36-38.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln receives December salary warrant for $2,022.33.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Borrows from Library of Congress: "Atlantic [magazine], Jan.-June 1861."
<bibl default='NO'>Borrowers' Ledger 1861-63, 114, Archives of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-01-06'>Tuesday, January 6, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Col. Daniel Ullmann and Capt. Alban B. Botsford, both of 78th New 
York Infantry, confer with President in matter of organizing brigade 
of Negro troops in Louisiana.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A70' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum Concerning Alban B. Botsford</xref>, 6 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:41.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln directs Sec. Seward not to countersign contract between U.S. 
government and B. Kock for colonizing 5,000 Negroes on Ile &#224; 
Vache.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A72' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 6 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:41-42.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Strange N. Palmer, father of Robert M. Palmer, late 
minister to Argentine, and Simon Cameron regarding commission in 
Marine Corps for Strange J. Palmer.
<bibl default='NO'>Palmer to Lincoln, 27 March 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin deposits $450 in Springfield Marine Bank, payments on 
principal and interest on Springfield City Bond.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 165.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
President explains to Mrs. Abraham H. Hoge that to make her son a 
major it is necessary to find a vacancy and officer who is willing to 
take him.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A69' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Abraham H. Hoge</xref>, 6 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:40-41.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-01-07'>Wednesday, January 7, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President discusses with former Cong. Green Adams (Ky.) proposition 
to raise and arm special force in Kentucky.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A73' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Green Adams</xref>, 7 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:42.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Informs B. Gratz Brown, antisecessionist and Democratic candidate in 
senatorial election in Missouri: "The Administration takes no part 
between it's friends in Mo."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A74' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to B. Gratz Brown</xref>, 7 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:42-43.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Col. Walter B. Scates, former chief justice of Illinois Supreme 
Court, hands to President letter from Gen. McClernand protesting 
Emancipation Proclamation as mitigating chances of negotiating peace 
with South.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A84' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John A. McClernand</xref>, 8 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:48-49.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sen. Sumner (Mass.) again interviews President about returning Gen. 
Butler to New Orleans.
<bibl default='NO'>Benjamin F. Butler, <title>Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences . . . Butler's Book</title> (Boston: A. M. Thayer, 1892), 552.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-01-08'>Thursday, January 8, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln replies to Gen. McClernand that
  Emancipation Proclamation has been issued and "broken eggs can not be mended." 
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A84' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John A. McClernand</xref>, 8 January 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:48-49.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sends
  felicitations to Jos&#233; M. Acha on reelection to presidency of Republic of
  Bolivia. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A80' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Jos&#233; M. Acha</xref>, 8 January 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:45.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Proclaims
  treaty of peace, friendship, commerce, and navigation with Republic of Bolivia.
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 30 April 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Senate confirms
  nomination of John P. Usher to be secretary of interior. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star,
  9 January 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Irwin withdraws $102 from Springfield Marine
  Bank, to pay taxes. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal
  Finances</title>, 177.</bibl>] </p>
         <p> Mrs. Fox at White House for social
  visit with <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>. <bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary,
  Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  President orders that attorney general be charged with direction of all
  proceedings under Act of August 6, 1861, as fully in all respects as under Act
  of July 17, 1862. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A81' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order
  to Edward Bates</xref>, 8 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:45-46.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Writes Gen.
  Burnside: "I deplore the want of concurrence with you, in opinion by your
  general officers, but I do not see the remedy. . . . I do not yet see how I
  could profit by changing the command of the A.P. &amp; if I did, I should not
  wish to do it by accepting the resignation of your commission." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A82' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ambrose E. Burnside</xref>, 8 January 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:46-48.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Inquires of
  Mil. Gov. Johnson about Capt. Charles S. Todd, 6th Kentucky Regiment, killed at
  Battle of Murfreesboro. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A83' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Andrew Johnson</xref>, 8 January 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:48.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-01-09'>Friday, January 9, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. No announcement of transactions.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sen. Powell (Ky.) calls on President and demands unconditional 
release of William S. Pryor, J. O'Hara, and Col. Thomas L. Jones 
(CSA), Kentuckians now on parole.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A87' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum Concerning William S. Pryor, J. O'Hara, and Thomas L. Jones</xref>, 9 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:50.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President transmits to Congress correspondence concerning international 
agricultural exhibition in city of Hamburg.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A89' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 9 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:51.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening consults with Sens. Browning (Ill.) and Hale (N.H.) and 
Rear Adm. Andrew H. Foote about compensated emancipation.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-01-10'>Saturday, January 10, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President consults with Secs. Welles and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 on problem of 
employment of contrabands (Negroes from Confederacy within Union 
lines).
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gen. Curtis at St. Louis: "I understand there is considerable 
trouble with the slaves in Missouri. Please do your best to keep 
peace on the question for two or three weeks, by which time we hope 
to do something here towards settling the question, in Missouri."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A93' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel R. Curtis</xref>, 10 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:52-53.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Informs Gov. Johnson (Tenn.): "I presume the remains of Capt. Todd 
are in the hands of his family friends, &amp; I wish to give no order 
on the subject. But I do wish your opinion of the effects of the late 
battles about Murfreesboro, upon the prospects of Tennessee."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A95' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew Johnson</xref>, 10 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:53.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening attends patriotic readings delivered by James E. Murdoch, 
elocutionist, in Senate.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 11 January 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-01-11'>Sunday, January 11, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln receives from Commissioner French request for $200 to aid 
families of District Volunteers.
<bibl default='NO'>French to Lincoln, 11 January 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Asks Sen. Jacob Collamer (Vt.) to call at once if not going to 
church, otherwise as soon as convenient.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A96' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jacob Collamer</xref>, 11 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:53-54.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-01-12'>Monday, January 12, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President and <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec.
  Stanton</person> in morning conference on army affairs. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A99' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 12 January 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:55.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln
  instructs Judge Adv. Gen. Holt to revise proceedings of courtmartial in case of
  Gen. Fitz John Porter, on trial in connection with failure of Gen. Pope's
  campaign, August 1862, and to report on other aspects of trial. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A98' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 12 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:54.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Acknowledges receipt
  of resolutions of Connecticut Legislature favorable to administration forwarded
  by Gov. Buckingham (Conn.). <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A97' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William A. Buckingham</xref>, 12 January 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:54.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sen. Sumner
  (Mass.) calls on President at night and reads letter from George Livermore of
  Boston acknowledging receipt of pen used by Lincoln to sign "New Years"
  proclamation (Emancipation Proclamation). <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Frank Leslie's
  Illustrated Newspaper</title>, 31 January 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> borrows "Why Paul Ferroll killed
  his wife" from Library of Congress. [Mrs. Caroline Wigley Clive, Why Paul
  Ferroll killed his wife, London, 1860.] <bibl default='NO'>Borrowers' Ledger 1861-63, 114,
  Archives of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-01-13'>Tuesday, January 13, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet examines intercepted mail in possession of Sec. Welles.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-01-14'>Wednesday, January 14, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President informs House of Representatives that it would not be 
compatible with public interest to make known communications with New 
Granada (Colombia and Panama).
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A103' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 14 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:56-58.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Relative to practical advantages of Emancipation Proclamation he 
writes Gen. Dix at Fortress Monroe, Va.: "I therefore will thank you 
for your well considered opinion whether Fortress-Monroe, and 
York-Town, one or both, could not, in whole or in part, be garrisoned 
by colored troops, leaving the white forces now necessary at those 
places to be employed elsewhere."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A102' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John A. Dix</xref>, 14 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:56.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-01-15'>Thursday, January 15, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In morning President confers with Capt. Dahlgren at Navy Yard 
regarding Capt. Diller's gunpowder.
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A107' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement Concerning Isaac R. Diller's Gundpowder</xref>, 15 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:59.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-01-16'>Friday, January 16, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cong. Robert McKnight (Pa.) and Gen. Heintzelman interview President 
regarding appointment of Heintzelman's son to West Point.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln borrows "Hume's England 2d" from Library of Congress. [David 
Hume, The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to 
the Revolution in 1688, Boston, 1854.]
<bibl default='NO'>Borrowers' Ledger 1861-63, 114, Archives of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-01-17'>Saturday, January 17, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In morning Lincoln discusses state of Union with Horace Greeley, then 
interviews Capt. James M. Rice accompanied by former Sen. O. H. 
Browning (Ill.), Washington attorney.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Signs joint resolution providing for payment of Army and Navy, and 
suggests means of relief for financial embarrassments of government.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A112' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 17 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:60-62.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> holds Saturday afternoon reception.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-01-18'>Sunday, January 18, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President attends morning service at Foundry M. E. Church, 14th and G 
Sts. NW., and becomes "Life Director of the Parent Society" in return 
for contribution of $150.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 19 January 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Converses with Assoc. Justice Davis on topics in general and 
reconstructed cabinet in particular.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-01-19'>Monday, January 19, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President replies to laudatory address from
  workingmen of Manchester, England: "It is now a pleasant duty to acknowledge
  the demonstration you have given of your desire that a spirit of peace and
  amity towards this country may prevail in the councils of your Queen." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A117' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Workingmen of Manchester, England</xref>, 19 January 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:63-65.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In
  afternoon J. E. Murdoch gives patriotic readings to select group at White
  House. In evening President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>
  attend readings in Senate. Murdoch reads "Sleeping Sentinel" by Francis De Haes
  Janvier. <bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 544; Washington Chronicle, 20 January 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-01-20'>Tuesday, January 20, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At cabinet meeting President asks secretaries for opinions on 
relative merits of five-foot gauge railroad as opposed to 
four-foot-one-and-a-half-inch gauge.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A125' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Establishing Gauge of Union Pacific Railroad</xref>, 21 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:68.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Senate report regarding exportation of articles of 
contraband for use of French army in Mexico.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A121' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 20 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:66-67.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives request from Gov. Yates (Ill.) for appointment of Col. 
William Ross as bearer of dispatches so that he may go to Europe for 
eye operation.
<bibl default='NO'>Yates to Lincoln, 20 January 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Army of Potomac on march. Blizzard sweeps country. Lincoln in White 
House hears frozen crystals beat on windows of office.
<bibl default='NO'>Monaghan, <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>, 279.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Deplores distress of people in southwest Missouri and informs Samuel 
T. Glover, prominent Unionist, that Congress would oppose extension 
of railroad to Springfield, Mo.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A120' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel T. Glover</xref>, 20 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:66.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-01-21'>Wednesday, January 21, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President approves sentence dismissing Gen. Fitz John Porter from service.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A124' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Approving Sentence of Fitz-John Porter</xref>, 21 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:67.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Establishes width of track of Pacific railroads at five feet.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A125' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Establishing Gauge of Union Pacific Railroad</xref>, 21 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:68.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Submits to Congress joint resolutions of corporate authorities of 
city of Washington urging construction of railroads concentrating 
upon city.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A126' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 21 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:68-69.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Endorses letter of Gen. Halleck to Gen. Grant: "It may be proper to 
give you some explanation of the revocation of your order expelling 
all Jews from your department. The President has no objection to your 
expelling traitors and Jew peddlers, which, I suppose was the object 
of your order; but, as it in terms proscribed an entire religious 
class, some of whom are fighting in our ranks, the President deemed 
it necessary to revoke it."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records&#8212;Armies</title> 1, XXIV, pt. 1, 9.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-01-22'>Thursday, January 22, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC&