January 08, 1863

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         <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>
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