January 06, 1864

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            <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> 
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