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<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-01'>Friday, January 1, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> hold annual New Year's Day reception at White House.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 1 January 1864.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Members of diplomatic corps begin to arrive at 10 A.M.
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
At 11 A.M. official families pay their respects.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> first appears at 11:30 A.M. to receive officers of Army and Navy.
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Washington Chronicle, 31 December 1864.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Public reception begins at 12 M. and lasts until 2 P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 1 January 1864.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln receives four Negroes, who wait in long line to be presented.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 1 January 1864.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-02'>Saturday, January 2, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President sends John Hay to Gen. Butler at Point Lookout, Md., with
blank forms to record discharge of prisoners who take oath of
December 8, 1863.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A194' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F. Butler</xref>, 2 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:103.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Submits case of reported corruption at Memphis, Tenn., to
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A197' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 2 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:104.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
O. H. Browning calls at White House to show Lincoln letter from Lt.
John F. Benjamin relative to Arkansas affairs.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
In evening Lincoln occupies private box of Col. James D. Greene at theatre.
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-03'>Sunday, January 3, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Sunday evening John T. Hall of Albany, N.Y., visits Lincoln at White
House. They talk about appointment to Supreme Court in case Chief
Justice Taney dies.
<bibl default='NO'>Hall to Lincoln, 17 October 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-04'>Monday, January 4, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lincoln is honorary officer of Ladies Great National Sanitary Fair in
Washington during January.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 4 January 1864.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-05'>Tuesday, January 5, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President transmits to Congress communications from secretary of war
and provost marshal general relating to joint resolution, approved
December 23, 1863, prohibiting payment of bounties to veteran
volunteers after January 5, 1864. "I feel constrained to recommend a
re-consideration of the subject."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A208' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 5 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:107-8.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Sends Gen. Nathan Kimball to Arkansas with blank books in which to
record names of persons taking oath of December 8, 1863.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A210' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Frederick Steele</xref>, 5 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:108-9.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Cabinet meets with only few members present.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President telegraphs <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> in Philadelphia: "All very well."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A206' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln</xref>, 5 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:106.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Receives December salary warrant for $2,022.33.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Asks H. T. Blow, president of Western Academy of Art, to thank John
W. Schaerff, artist and lithographer at St. Louis, for "photograph of
Mr. Schaerpp's picture which you have had the kindness to deliver."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A204' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry T. Blow</xref>, 5 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:105-6.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-06'>Wednesday, January 6, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President confers with Atty. Gen. Bates in forenoon
about departmental matters. <bibl default='NO'>Bates to Lincoln, 6 January 1864, Robert Todd
Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Sends congratulations to King of Portugal on birth of
Prince Carlos Fernando. <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A213' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Luiz I</xref>, 6 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:110.</bibl>
</p>
<p> A. Kidder of Chicago
sends President 50 engraved and lithographed copies of Emancipation
Proclamation. <bibl default='NO'>Kidder to Lincoln, 6 January 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln
Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Answers objection of Gov. Thomas E. Bramlette (Ky.) to
order of Gen. Foster moving troops specifically raised for protection of
Kentucky to Knoxville, presumably at direction of Gen. Grant. "True, these
troops are, in strict law, only to be removed by my order; but Gen. Grant's
judgment would be the highest incentive to me to make such order." <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A212' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Thomas E. Bramlette</xref>, 6 January 1864,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:109.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-07'>Thursday, January 7, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President sends congratulations to Christian IX on accession to
throne of Denmark.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A216' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Christian IX</xref>, 7 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:111.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Orders death sentence of Henry Andrews commuted to imprisonment,
"because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A217' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement Concerning Henry Andrews</xref>, [7 January 1864], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:111-12.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Transmits to Senate several treaties with bands of "Shoshonee Nation
of Indians."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A220' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, [7] January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:112-13.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Transmits to Congress copy of court decree and requests appropriation
of $17,150 to compensate for illegal capture of British schooner
"Glen."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A221' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 7 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:113.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Telegraphs <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> in Philadelphia: "We are all well, and have
not been otherwise."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A219' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln</xref>, 7 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:112.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Interviews O. H. Browning at night relative to claim of Illinois for
2 per cent fund associated with sale of public lands.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Acknowledges receipt of plan proposed by C. J. Wright of Cincinnati
and Charles K. Hawkes of New York for getting cotton from within
rebel lines and asks three questions: 1. If Rebel should come into
Union lines with cotton and offer to take oath of December 8, 1864.,
"what do you understand would be done with him and his cotten?" 2.
"How will the physical difficulty, and danger, of getting cotten from
within the rebel lines be lessened by your plan?" 3.
"<uLine>Where</uLine> do you propose putting the cotten &c. into
market? how assure the government of your good faith in the business?
and how be compensated for your services?"
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A224' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Crafts J. Wright and Charles K. Hawkes</xref>, 7 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:114-16.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-08'>Friday, January 8, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lays before Senate treaty with bands of Chippewa Indians.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A225' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, [8] January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:116-17.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Interviews Sen. Grimes (Iowa) about military recommendations.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A226' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 8 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:117.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Cabinet meets, with Secs. Welles and Usher only members present.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Sec. Seward presents members of National Academy of Science to President.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 9 January 1864.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> announces her Saturday afternoon receptions will begin
January 9, 1864.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 8 January 1864.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President writes Mrs. Esther Stockton, widow of Rev. Joseph Stockton,
of Pittsburgh: "Learning that you who have passed the eighty-fourth
year of life, have given to the soldiers, some three hundred pairs of
stockings, knitted by yourself, I wish to offer you my thanks."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A227' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Esther Stockton</xref>, 8 [January] 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:117.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-09'>Saturday, January 9,
1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President Lincoln
writes to Admiral John Dahlgren with a request that Dahlgren meet with Captain
Lavender, of New York. Lavender wants to demonstrate a device "for discovering,
and aiding to remove, under-water obstructions to the passage of vessels."
Lavender comes recommended by New York Senator Edwin Morgan and by Lincoln, who
writes that Lavender "has sufficiently impressed me to induce me to send him to
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=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A229' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to John A. Dahlgren</xref>, 9 January 1864,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:118.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Orders
executive buildings in Washington draped in mourning for 14 days to honor
memory of Caleb B. Smith, late secretary of interior. <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A230' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order
for Observance of Mourning for Caleb B. Smith</xref>, 9 January 1864,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:118-19.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Gen. Meigs
reports to President on conditions in West. <bibl default='NO'>Diary, Montgomery C. Meigs
Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Deputation from
Philadelphia visits Lincoln on behalf of Gen. Meade. <bibl default='NO'>Adam G. de Gurowski,
<title>Diary</title>, 3 vols. (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1862; Washington, DC:
Morrison, 1866).</bibl>
</p>
<p>
<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>'s
reception from 1 to 3 P.M. is well attended. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 9 January
1864.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-10'>Sunday, January 10, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President consults with Sec. Welles, F. P. Blair,
Sr., and former Gov. Dennison (Ohio) regarding presidential campaign.
<bibl default='NO'>William F. Zornow, <title>Lincoln and the Party Divided</title> (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1954), 41.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Authorizes and directs
Gen. Hitchcock to offer Gen. Trimble, prisoner of war in Fort McHenry, Md. in
exchange for Maj. [probably Harry] White, prisoner at Richmond. <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A234' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Ethan A. Hitchcock</xref>, 10 January 1864,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:119-20.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-11'>Monday, January 11, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President sends message to Robert: "I send your draft to-day. How are
you now? Answer by telegraph at once."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A238' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert Todd Lincoln</xref>, 11 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:121.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Confers with former Gov. Dennison (Ohio) and Postmaster Gen. Blair
relative to third-party movement in favor of Sec. Chase or Gen.
Fremont.
<bibl default='NO'>William E. Smith, <title>The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics</title>, 2 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1933), 2:253.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Receives tickets from First Presbyterian Church for lecture by John B. Gough.
<bibl default='NO'>O'Mahon to Lincoln, 11 January 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
[Irwin deposits in Springfield Marine Bank $956.25, principal and
interest on Gen. John Cook note.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 165.</bibl>]
</p>
<p>
Lincoln endorses memorandum of Sen. Wade (Ohio) regarding his son,
Henry P. Wade: "Senator Wade must be obliged in this matter before
long—a West-Point case."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A239' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of Henry P. Wade</xref>, 11 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:121.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-12'>Tuesday, January 12, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President establishes western base of Sierra Nevada Mountains
relative to construction of Central Pacific Railroad.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A243' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Fixing Western Base of Union Pacific Railroad</xref>, 12 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:122.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Cabinet meets, with three members present.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
"The President's reception this evening passed off very pleasantly,
although not so largely attended as usual. . . . President Lincoln
appeared in excellent health."
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 13 January 1864; Washington National Republican, 12 January 1864.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln devotes salary warrants, August 1863, September 1863, October
1863 and December 1863, to purchase of $8,000 Treasury notes.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Transmits to Senate communications regarding "alleged exceptional
treatment of Kansas troops when captured by those in rebellion."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A244' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 12 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:123.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-13'>Wednesday, January 13, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President sends John Hay to Florida to aid Gen. Gillmore in
reconstructing loyal 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=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A249' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Quincy A. Gillmore</xref>, 13 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:126.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Hay given commission of assistant adjutant general.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
"The President, the Cabinet, and the dignitaries run after the
lectures on the Glacial Period. . . . What innocent sheep to listen
to this old rehash, which an academician serves to them as being the
latest and newest scientific dish."
<bibl default='NO'>Adam G. de Gurowski, <title>Diary</title>, 3 vols. (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1862; Washington, DC: Morrison, 1866).</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln replies to note from Simeon Draper: "Nothing yet about the
cotton matter, although I am still considering it."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A248' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simeon Draper</xref>, 13 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:126.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Orders Maj. Theodore T. S. Laidley: "Please make a trial of the
Absterdam projectile, and report to the <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Secretary of War</person>."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A250' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Theodore T. S. Laidley</xref>, 13 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:127.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Writes Gen. Banks to "proceed with all possible despatch" to
construct "a free state-government" for 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=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A246' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Nathaniel P. Banks</xref>, 13 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:123-25.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-14'>Thursday, January 14,
1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln interviews
T. Stackpole, who "desires to go into some business about oysters." <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A255' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Benjamin F. Butler</xref>, 14 January 1864,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:128.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Sends two
autographs to Bishop McIlvaine. <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A256' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Charles P. McIlvaine</xref>, 14 January 1864,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:128.</bibl>
</p>
<p> President
Lincoln meets with Congressman Brutus J. Clay, of Kentucky, and with Mrs.
Haggard regarding Haggard's nineteen-year-old son Edward. Mrs. Haggard
petitions Lincoln for Edward's release from Camp Douglas, a union
prisoner-of-war camp located in Chicago, Illinois. After the conference with
Clay and Haggard, Lincoln issues a memorandum granting Edward's discharge
contingent upon his "tak[ing] the [loyalty] oath of Dec. 8." <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A258' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum
Concerning Edward Haggard</xref>, 14 January 1864,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:129.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Approves act
extending payment of bounties to March 1, 1864. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 15
January 1864.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-15'>Friday, January 15, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President sends Judge Brien to aid Mil. Gov.
Johnson in reconstructing loyal state government 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=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A262' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Andrew Johnson</xref>, [c. 15 January 1864],
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:130-31.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Receives
Cong. Moorhead (Pa.) and "distressed" mother who wants to tell her troubles to
President. <bibl default='NO'>Moorhead to Lincoln, 15 January 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln
Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Wishes Gen. Heintzelman success in new Ohio assignment
concerned with prisoners of war and activities of secessionists. <bibl default='NO'>
<title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress,
Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Formally receives Waldemar R. de Raasloff,
Danish minister to U.S. <bibl default='NO'>Washington National Republican, 15 January
1864.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-16'>Saturday, January 16, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lincoln thanks publishers of "North American Review" for
complimentary copy and calls attention to misunderstanding in article
by James Russell Lowell, that President believes secession absolved
states and people from their obligations.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A265' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William Crosby and Henry P. Nichols</xref>, 16 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:132-33.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Receives Anna Dickinson in evening at request of Cong. Kelley (Pa.).
<bibl default='NO'>Kelley to Lincoln, 16 January 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Attends lecture by Anna Dickinson at Capitol.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles to wife, 17 January 1864, Gideon Welles Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> holds Saturday afternoon reception.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 16 January 1864.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President writes Sen. Edwin D. Morgan (N.Y.): "Please present my
compliments to Judge [John W.] Edmonds, & say to him the books
will be gratefully accepted by me."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A267' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin D. Morgan</xref>, 16 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:133.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-17'>Sunday, January 17, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President interviews E. Graham Haight and mother in evening.
<bibl default='NO'>Haight to Lincoln, 17 January 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Assures Gov. Bramlette (Ky.) that Gen. Grant was aware of order
moving troops from Kentucky to Knoxville.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A270' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas E. Bramlette</xref>, 17 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:134-35.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-18'>Monday, January 18, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lincoln acknowledges receipt of two lithographed facsimiles of
Emancipation Proclamation sent by Thomas B. Bryan.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A271' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas B. Bryan</xref>, 18 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:135.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Interviews Pvt. John P. M. Thornton, Co. E, 61st New York Volunteers
and grants him pardon if he returns to his regiment.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A276' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Whom It May Concern</xref>, 18 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:137.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Confers with Walter Smith, Maryland slaveholder introduced by Sen.
Johnson (Md.).
<bibl default='NO'>Johnson to Lincoln, 18 January 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Drafts letter for
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
to send to Gen. Butler at Fortress
Monroe, Va., directing him to suspend certain fiscal measures
affecting Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A272' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F. Butler</xref>, [18 January 1864], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:135-36.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-19'>Tuesday, January 19, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President telegraphs Robert: "There is a good deal of smallpox here.
Your friends must judge for themselves whether they ought to come or
not."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A278' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert T. Lincoln</xref>, 19 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:137.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Confers with former Cong. Joshua R. Giddings (Ohio), consul general
to British North American Provinces, who wants Maj. Grotius R.
Giddings, his son, made brigadier general.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A279' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton and Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 19 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:137-38.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Cabinet discusses admission of cotton into Union lines.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-20'>Wednesday, January 20, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President transmits to Congress report of former
Sen. Wright (Ind.) on International Agricultural Exhibition held in 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=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A288' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 20 January 1864,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:140.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Interviews
Arkansas delegation regarding creation of military government. <bibl default='NO'>Chicago
Tribune, 22 January 1864.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Orders election for governor of
Arkansas. <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A290' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Frederick Steele</xref>, 20 January 1864,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:141-42.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Gen.
Butler has long interview with President in afternoon. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star,
21 January 1864.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Lincoln confers with Cong. Clay (Ky.) in
evening about getting authority to manage family property. <bibl default='NO'>Clay to
Lincoln, 21 January 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln
Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p> John G. Nicolay
thanks H. J. Alvord for present of whitefish to President. <bibl default='NO'>
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:530.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-21'>Thursday, January 21,
1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President transmits
to Senate documentation "respecting the recent destruction by fire of the
church of the Compañia at Santiago, Chile." <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A294' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 21 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:143.</bibl>
</p>
<p>In the evening,
President Lincoln and his wife <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mary Lincoln</person> host
a dinner for members of the Cabinet, the Supreme Court, "and a few others, with
their wives." Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles noted that the gathering "was
pleasant...[if] a little stiff and awkward on the part of some of the guests,
but [it] passed off very well." <bibl default='NO'>Howard K. Beale, ed.,
<title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary of Gideon Welles</title>, 3 vols., (New
York: W. W. Norton, 1960), 1:512.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-01-22'>Friday, January 22, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President announces to delegation from Arkansas that both military
and civil administration are entrusted to Gen. Steele.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A297' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks to Arkansas Delegation</xref>, 22 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'> |
