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<date value='1863-01-06'>Tuesday, January 6, 1863.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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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.
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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=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>
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Lincoln directs Sec. Seward not to countersign contract between U.S.
government and B. Kock for colonizing 5,000 Negroes on Ile à
Vache.
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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=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>
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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>
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[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>]
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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.
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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=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>
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