January 02, 1864

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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>.
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         <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>
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         <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>
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         <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>
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         <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>
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