January 19, 1864

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            <date value='1864-01-19'>Tuesday, January 19, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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         <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>
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         <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>
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         <p>
Cabinet discusses admission of cotton into Union lines.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
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