January 10, 1863

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            <date value='1863-01-10'>Saturday, January 10, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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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>
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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>
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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>
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In evening attends patriotic readings delivered by James E. Murdoch, 
elocutionist, in Senate.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 11 January 1863.</bibl>
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