February 04, 1863

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-02-04'>Wednesday, February 4, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President receives from Crafts J. Wright of
  Cincinnati offer to raise, discipline, and command brigade of Negro troops. 
  <bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;WR 107, Off. Sec. War, Register of Letters Received, EB3, Entry
  22.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sends report on present conditions in Mexico to House of
  Representatives. <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%3A175' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 4 February 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:90.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Telegraphs
  Gen. Robert C. Schenck: "I hear of some difficulty in the streets of Baltimore
  yesterday. What is the amount of it?" [Probably group of convalescents from
  Philadelphia showing their antipathy toward Negroes employed at Solders' Rest.]
  <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%3A176' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Robert C. Schenck</xref>, 4 February 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:90.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sends to
  Senate nomination of Comdr. Worden to be captain. <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%3A177' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 4 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:91.</bibl> 
         </p>
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