<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-10-01'>Saturday, October 1, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President is visited by his substitute, J. S.
  Staples, accompanied by Provost Marshal Gen. Fry, Noble D. Larner, in charge of
  Third Ward, and Staples' father. Shakes hands with recruit and expresses hope
  that he will be one of the fortunate ones. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 1 October
  1864, 3 October 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Calls on Sec. Welles at Navy Dept.
  regarding Rear Adm. Farragut's station in Gulf. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Issues order of
  thanks to 100-day troops from Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 14 October 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Promises Acting
  Sec. Otto to urge Congress to recognize claims for credit to purchase supplies
  for refugee Indians in Kansas. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A81' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William T. Otto</xref>, 1 October 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:34.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-02'>Sunday, October 2, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President discusses vacant judgeship to which he intends to appoint 
Atty. Gen. Bates.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews William McKee, editor, Missouri "Democrat," on political 
developments in St. Louis.
<bibl default='NO'>Schurz to Lincoln, 1 October 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-03'>Monday, October 3, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Morris L. Hallowell, Philadelphia cotton dealer 
accompanied by J. W. Forney, and recommends that secretary of 
treasury assist Hallowell to get certain cotton out 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=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A84' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William P. Fessenden</xref>, 3 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:35.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Recognizes Jose S. Prieto as consul of Republic of Mexico.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 7 October 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
O. H. Browning visits Lincoln in evening at Soldiers' Home.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-04'>Tuesday, October 4, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. William Dennison, new postmaster general, sworn in.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President asks John Nicolay to make official trip to St. Louis.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 4 October 1864, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Albert G. Richardson, who represents groups of loyal men 
and clubs interested in distribution of literature to army.
<bibl default='NO'>Richardson to Lincoln, 24 October 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Visits War Dept. in afternoon.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Calls on Sec. Welles in late afternoon to inquire about arrangements 
for exchange of naval prisoners.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-05'>Wednesday, October 5, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Early in morning President at Navy Dept. to discuss transfer of naval 
prisoners. Leaves and returns in hour with Sec. Seward. President, 
Seward, and Sec. Welles go to War Dept. to see 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 and Gens. 
Hitchcock and Halleck. They decide to effect exchange as arranged by 
Welles through military.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President sends Nicolay to Missouri to learn election sympathies of Union men.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Lincoln, 10 October 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives September salary warrant for $1,981.66.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gen. Grant regarding contemplated exchange of naval prisoners 
through military lines: "I hope you may find it consistent to let it 
go forward under the general supervision of Gen. Butler."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A89' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 5 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:36-37.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-06'>Thursday, October 6, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln receives E. Peck, associate justice, U.S. Court of Claims, 
and gives him card of introduction to secretary of treasury.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A93' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William P. Fessenden</xref>, 6 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:38.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Col. Benjamin H. Bristow and others from Christian County, 
Ky., regarding political conditions in Kentucky.
<bibl default='NO'>Johnson to Lincoln, 2 October 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Tad sends carriage bill to Gus Gumpert of Philadelphia for payment, 
because "I ant got any money to pay the man with."
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 138.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-10-07'>Friday, October 7, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President appoints five directors on part of
  government for Union Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A95' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Appointment
  of Directors of Union Pacific Railroad</xref>, 7 October 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:38-39.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews
  Gen. Banks on military and political affairs in Louisiana. <bibl default='NO'>Washington
  Star, 7 October 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Recognizes J. Theophilus Plate as consul
  for Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg at Philadelphia. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle,
  13 October 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Recognizes Joseph N. A. Benziger as consul of
  Swiss Confederation for Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 20
  October 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews Mrs. Anna Byers-Jennings, who seeks
  release of Daniel Hayden of Missouri. T. J. Turner and Col. Hancock of Chicago
  join interview. President suggests that she return at 8 in morning. <bibl default='NO'>Rufus
  R. Wilson, ed., <title>Lincoln Among His Friends: A Sheaf of Intimate
  Memories</title> (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1942), 375-77.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Col. Allen calls on President to present album from Hungarian Count Sandor. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 7 October 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> O. H. Browning
  calls at White House. <bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President writes Henry
  J. Raymond that "phrase attributed to me, <uLine>'of the Jacobinism of
  Congress,'</uLine> . . . I do not remember using . . . and which I wish not to
  be published." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A97' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Henry J. Raymond</xref>, 7 October 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:39-40.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-08'>Saturday, October 8, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At 8 A.M. Mrs. Byers-Jennings again calls on President, who grants 
her request. In evening she dines at White House.
<bibl default='NO'>Rufus R. Wilson, ed., <title>Lincoln Among His Friends: A Sheaf of Intimate Memories</title> (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1942), 375.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and secretary of war among those attending funeral in 
Georgetown of Lt. John R. Meigs, son of Gen. Meigs.
<bibl default='NO'>Diary, Montgomery C. Meigs Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln receives request from proprietors of Baltimore "Evening Post" 
to rescind Gen. Wallace's order suppressing paper.
<bibl default='NO'>Kimmel and Bosley to Lincoln, 8 October 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-09'>Sunday, October 9, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln besieged by Sunday visitors.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs Simon Cameron: "There is absolutely no news here from the 
Army of the Potomac not published in 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
s bulletins."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A99' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 9 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:40-41.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-10'>Monday, October 10, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In morning Cong. Kelley (Pa.) spends two and a half hours at White 
House. "Didn't talk about himself more than 9/10ths of the time."
<bibl default='NO'>Dennett, <title corresp='books_Dennett'>Hay Diaries and Letters</title>, 225.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Welles confers with Lincoln regarding payment of back bounty to marines.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln sends message to Baltimore mass meeting in favor of "Free 
Constitution" for Maryland.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A101' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Hoffman</xref>, 10 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:41-42.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Charles Jones, chairman of Union State Central Committee 
of New York, about getting out seamen's and sailors' vote.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A104' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Gideon Welles</xref>, 10 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:43.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Testifies concerning shelling of houses near Fort Stevens, DC: "I 
was present . . . and understanding that the Military officers in 
command thought the shelling . . . necessary, I certainly gave my 
approbation to its being done."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A103' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Testimony Concerning Shelling of Houses Near Fort Stevens</xref>, 10 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:42-43.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-10-11'>Tuesday, October 11, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President telegraphs Robert at Cambridge, Mass.:
  "Your letter makes us a little uneasy about your health. Telegraph us how you
  are. If you think it would help you make us a visit." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A107' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Robert T. Lincoln</xref>, 11 October 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:44.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln and
  Sec. Seward call on Sec. Welles at Navy Dept. about New York voters in Navy. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At
  8 P.M. President and John Hay go to War Dept. to get election returns. During
  lull Lincoln reads several chapters of Nasby papers, humorous writings of
  "Petroleum V. Nasby," pen name of David R. Locke. <bibl default='NO'>Hay,
  <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Stays at
  telegraph office until after midnight, waiting for returns from Pennsylvania
  and Ohio. <bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph Office</title>,
  276.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-12'>Wednesday, October 12, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives notice that cost of his substitute recruit [J. S. 
Staples] is $750. [See September 30, 1864.]
<bibl default='NO'>Larner to Fry, 8 October 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Suspends clearance of gunboat "Fusigama," built in New York for 
Japanese 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=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A110' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Concerning the <ship teiForm='name'>Fusigama</ship>
               </xref>, 12 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:45.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Answers Gen. Grant's inquiry about election and adds: "Send us what 
you may know of your army vote."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A109' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 12 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:45.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-13'>Thursday, October 13, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sec. Welles reports President happy over election returns.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln again at War Dept. telegraph office for reports on state elections.
<bibl default='NO'>Randall, <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 4:235.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Estimates electoral vote in November election as 120 "Union Vote, for 
President" and 114 "<uLine>Supposed Copperhead Vote</uLine>."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A112' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Estimated Electoral Vote</xref>, 13 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:46.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Informs John Hay that he is in no hurry to replace Chief Justice 
Taney, who died last night.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Answers request of Gov. Morton (Ind.) that troops on furlough not 
return until after Presidential election: "I said [to Gen. Sherman] 
that any soldiers he could spare for October need not to remain for 
November."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A113' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Oliver P. Morton</xref>, 13 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:46-47.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-14'>Friday, October 14, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President decides that second congressional district in Philadelphia 
is entitled to additional credit on draft.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A116' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James B. Fry</xref>, 14 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:48.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Inquires of Sec. Welles as to President attending funeral of Chief 
Justice Taney.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-15'>Saturday, October 15, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Shortly after 6 A.M. President, Sec. Seward, Atty. Gen. Bates, and 
Postmaster Gen. Dennison attend funeral service for Chief Justice 
Taney at residence on Indiana Avenue near 2d St. Just before 7 A.M. 
procession, including President, moves toward railroad station. At 
7:30 A.M. special funeral train of two cars departs for Frederick, 
Md., where burial takes place at 11:30 A.M. President does not make 
trip.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 15 October 1864; Washington Chronicle, 16 October 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln interviews John Lellyet, who presents protest from fellow 
Tennesseans against voting procedures and Mil. Gov. Johnson's 
administration of elections.
<bibl default='NO'>Henry J. Raymond, <title>The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln . . . Together with his State Papers, including his Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations and the Closing Scenes Connected with his Life and Death</title> (New York: Derby &amp; Miller, 1865), 598-600.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs H. W. Hoffman in Baltimore: "Come over to-night and see 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=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A118' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Hoffman</xref>, 15 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:48-49.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin withdraws from Springfield Marine Bank $9, semiannual payment 
of interest on scholarship at Illinois State University.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 178.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-16'>Sunday, October 16, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President replies to request of Cong. Moorhead (Pa.) for stay of 
execution: "I do not rem[em]ber about the Peter Gilner case, and must 
look it up before I can answer."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A120' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James K. Moorhead</xref>, 16 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:49.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-10-17'>Monday, October 17, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Cong. Kelley (Pa.) calls on President and presents
  him pocketknife on behalf of friends. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A125' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Alfred B. Justice and Others</xref>, 17 October 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:51.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> O. H. Browning
  urges President to appoint <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> chief
  justice of Supreme Court. Lincoln tells him that Atty. Gen. Bates has
  personally asked for it. <bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cong E. B. Washburne
  (Ill.) sends Lincoln gloomy letter on prospects in coming election. President
  endorses envelope, "Stampeded." <bibl default='NO'>Washburne to Lincoln, 17 October 1864,
  Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-18'>Tuesday, October 18, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln interviews William O. Bartlett, promoter associated with 
James Gordon Bennett, about New York politics and campaign expenses.
<bibl default='NO'>Bartlett to Lincoln, 18 October 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[John Nicolay leaves St. Louis for visit to Illinois.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Lincoln, 18 October 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>]
</p>
         <quote>
            <p>
[At Cedar Creek (Va.) General Philip H. Sheridan successfully 
concludes the Shenandoah Valley campaign.]
</p>
         </quote>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-19'>Wednesday, October 19, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews W. Leach, of Illinois, who seeks an exchange for 
his brother-in-law.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A127' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ethan A. Hitchcock</xref>, 19 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:51-52.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Group of loyal Marylanders from East Washington, headed by band from 
Emory Hospital and carrying signs proclaiming "The Union Forever," 
joins delegation from Lincoln &amp; Johnson Club of Washington and 
marches from Navy Yard to White House to serenade President. Lincoln 
appears at upper window, with Tad by his side holding torch, and 
responds to serenade.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 20 October 1864; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A128' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Response to a Serenade</xref>, 19 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:52-53.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[John Nicolay writes John Hay from Springfield, Ill.: "I was more 
than ever disgusted with the Missouri wrangle. . . . it all hinged . 
. . upon personal spite or greed for spoils."
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Hay, 19 October 1864, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-20'>Thursday, October 20, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President sends congratulations to Isabel II, Queen of Spain, on 
marriage of niece and condolences on death of nephew.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A130' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Isabel II</xref>, 20 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:53-54.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Congratulates William I, King of Prussia, on birth of grandson.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A135' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William I</xref>, 20 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:56-57.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders that Annie Wittenmyer, special agent of Iowa Sanitary 
Association, "have transportation to any of the Armies, and any 
privileges while there."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A133' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Concerning Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer</xref>, 20 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:54-55.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sets apart, by proclamation, last Thursday in November as day of Thanksgiving.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A134' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation of Thanksgiving</xref>, 20 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:55-56.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives letter from F. P. Blair, Sr., urging Montgomery Blair for 
chief justice for two reasons: 1. He deserves it for what he has done 
for administration. 2. Appointment would disperse ostracism caused by 
removal from cabinet.
<bibl default='NO'>William E. Smith, <title>The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics</title>, 2 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1933), 2:298-99.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Dr. Bellows visits Lincoln to present gift of gold box from citizens 
of California.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 29 October 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln asks favor: "If not inconsistent with the service, will Gen. 
[Christopher C.] Augur please allow the furlough requested. The 
father of the boy is a domestic in my service."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A129' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Christopher C. Augur</xref>, 20 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:53.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-21'>Friday, October 21, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and Tad watch torchlight procession from upper windows 
under portico. Later, crowd calls for President, and he responds 
briefly.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A138' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Response to a Serenade</xref>, 21 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:57-58.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs John Nicolay at St. Louis: "While Curtis is fighting Price 
have you any idea where the force under Rosecrans is? or what it is 
doing?"
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A136' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John G. Nicolay</xref>, 21 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:57.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-10-22'>Saturday, October 22, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President notifies former Gov. William B. Campbell
  (Tenn.) and others that he declines to interfere in any way with presidential
  election in 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=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A139' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William B. Campbell and Others</xref>, 22 October 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:58-72.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Informs
  William Price, district attorney, Baltimore, and friends that they will be
  received any time today they present themselves. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A142' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William Price</xref>, 22 October 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:73.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Tenders thanks
  of nation to Gen. Sheridan for successful operations in Shenandoah Valley,
  including his famous ride from Winchester, Va., and defeat of Confederates at
  Cedar Creek. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A144' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Philip H. Sheridan</xref>, 22 October 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:73-74.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews
  Judge Hughes, who desires to trade in Southern products. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A145' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 22 October 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:74.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Attends
  military review and misses visit from Thurlow Weed. <bibl default='NO'>Weed to Lincoln, 24
  October 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library
  of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Writes pass: "These Friends,
  Joseph J. Neave and William Norton, reside in England and wish to visit the
  Friends in North Carolina. Allow them to pass, with ordinary baggage, to Gen.
  Grant's Head Quarters, and by his consent through our lines." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A141' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Pass
  for Joseph J. Neave and William Norton</xref>, 22 October 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:72-73.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-23'>Sunday, October 23, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives group of gentlemen of Hebrew faith who claim to 
represent the Israelites of New York.
<bibl default='NO'>Isaacs to Lincoln, 26 October 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends message to Gen. Thomas at Nashville and copy to Gen. 
Cadwallader C. Washburn at Memphis, Tenn., regarding possible 
Confederate raid into western Kentucky from Corinth, Miss., on 
November 4, 1864.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A146' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George H. Thomas</xref>, 23 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:74.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-24'>Monday, October 24, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President speaks to 189th New York Volunteers in front of White House 
before they leave for front.
<bibl default='NO'>Randall, <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 3:11; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A148' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech to One Hundred Eighty-Ninth New York Volunteers</xref>, 24 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:75.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
O. H. Browning and Hanson A. Risley, treasury agent, confer with 
Lincoln about permit to trade in cotton.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-25'>Tuesday, October 25, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President suspends execution of Young C. Edmonson. Issues pass to 
Francis T. King of Baltimore. Inquires about condition of Lt. Charles 
Saumenig. Sends Mr. Alderson to 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 with note, "to get some 
suitable situation."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A149' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John F. Miller</xref>, 25 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:75-76.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-26'>Wednesday, October 26, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives petition from citizens of Allen and Barren 
Counties in Ky. asking refund of money assessed by military 
authorities.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A156' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John R. Underwood and Henry Grider</xref>, 26 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:77-78.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders discharge of "Big Eagle," Indian confined at Davenport, Iowa.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A154' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order for Discharge of Big Eagle</xref>, 26 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:76.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-27'>Thursday, October 27, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
O. H. Browning and Mr. La Forge of New York confer with Lincoln on 
case of Shiff, young Frenchman who has served as surgeon with 
Confederates.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Charles Ballance, Illinois lawyer and old friend of Lincoln, calls at 
White House.
<bibl default='NO'>Ballance to Lincoln, 30 October 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President recognizes Carl Otto Nilsen as vice consul of Sweden and 
Norway at La Crosse, Wis.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 4 November 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders Gen. Burbridge to investigate collection of money from 
citizens of Allen and Barren Counties, Ky., to compensate Union men 
for depredations committed by Rebels and to "make any correction 
which may seem to be proper."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A157' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Stephen G. Burbridge</xref>, 27 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:78.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-10-28'>Friday, October 28, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln interviews Mrs. Margaret C. Price who asks
  that her son, prisoner of war, be released from Camp Chase, Ohio. Mrs. George
  W. Bowen calls on Lincoln and asks that her husband, prisoner of war at Camp
  Chase, be discharged. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A159' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Albert G. Hodges</xref>, 28 October 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:79.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cabinet meets.
  Coming presidential election and minor affairs discussed. <bibl default='NO'>Bates,
  <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> O. H. Browning
  confers with Lincoln again about Shiff case. <bibl default='NO'>Browning,
  <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sec. Welles
  complains to President that all ships are tied up at Hampton Roads, Va., and
  Beaufort, N.C., behind army, consequently blockade is being neglected. 
  <bibl default='NO'>West, <title corresp='books_West'>Welles</title>, 298.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-29'>Saturday, October 29, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At 8 A.M. President receives Sojourner Truth, Negro woman, 
evangelist, and former slave. Lincoln signs her autograph album.
<bibl default='NO'>Carpenter, <title corresp='books_Carpenter'>Six Months</title>, 203.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Hon. B. Payne [probably New York legislator] calls on President to 
deliver specially made cane from Laurel F. Brockway, Albany, N.Y.
<bibl default='NO'>Brockway to Lincoln, 27 October 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln interviews Simon Cameron on aftermath of coming presidential election.
<bibl default='NO'>Cameron to Lincoln, 1 November 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin withdraws $4 from Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 178.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-30'>Sunday, October 30, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with William Millward, U.S. marshal, eastern 
district of Pennsylvania, regarding late vote as compared to last 
election of Gov. Curtin (Pa.).
<bibl default='NO'>Millward to Lincoln, 7 November 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs A. K. McClure: "I would like to hear from you" regarding 
coming presidential election.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A166' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Alexander K. McClure</xref>, 30 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:81.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-10-31'>Monday, October 31, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President issues proclamation admitting Nevada into Union.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A171' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Admitting Nevada into the Union</xref>, 31 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:83-84.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with "Gen. Todd" regarding outcome of exempting about 5,000 
men from draft in Pennsylvania and putting them on duty defending 
border.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A173' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 31 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:84-85.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Thanks 42d Massachusetts Volunteers, 100-day regiment whose term of 
service is over, "for the service you have rendered the country."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A172' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech to Forty-second Massachusetts Regiment</xref>, 31 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:84.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Acknowledges communication from Rev. William Nast covering resolutions of Central 
German Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A170' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William Nast</xref>, 31 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:83.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>