<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-11-01'>Tuesday, November 1, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sec. Seward, in presence of Atty. Gen. Bates, reads to President 
dispatch announcing success of new Maryland Constitution.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. Butler interviews President prior to taking charge of policing 
polls at national election in New York.
<bibl default='NO'>Benjamin F. Butler, <title>Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences . . . Butler's Book</title> (Boston: A. M. Thayer, 1892), 775.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
W. O. Bartlett calls on Lincoln relative to appointment of James 
Gordon Bennett as Minister to France.
<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%3A515' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Abram Wakeman</xref>, 26 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:239-40.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Post Office Dept. establishes domestic money order system.
<bibl default='NO'>J. Duane Squires, "Some Enduring Achievements of the Lincoln Administration, 1861-65," <title>Abraham Lincoln Quarterly</title> 5 (December 1848):200.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President endorses letter of Sgt. H. Warren Stimson, 142d 
Pennsylvania Volunteers: "West-Point. I wish this 'soldier boy' to 
have a chance."
<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%3A176' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement Concerning H. Warren Stimson</xref>, 1 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:85.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-11-02'>Wednesday, November 2, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> New York commissioners, accompanied by
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> , make formal courtesy call on
  President at 1 P.M. <bibl default='NO'>Stanton to Lincoln, 2 November 1864, Robert Todd
  Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At 2 P.M. Rev. G. H. Blakeslee, Methodist pastor at
  Binghamton, N.Y., and Rev. E. W. Breckinridge, brother of R. J. Breckinridge,
  visit President, who autographs their books. <bibl default='NO'>Rufus R. Wilson, ed.,
  <title>Intimate Memories of Lincoln</title> (Elmira, NY: Primavera Press,
  1942), 432.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln receives another request from Mrs. Emily
  Todd Helm for privilege of going south to sell her cotton. <bibl default='NO'>Helm to
  Lincoln, 30 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='1864-11-03'>Thursday, November 3, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Soldier on furlough to vote for Gen. McClellan has trouble getting 
transportation and calls on Lincoln, who orders: "Let this man have 
transportation immediately."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 16 November 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President receives report from Dr. Zacharie who has been 
concentrating on Jewish vote in New York City.
<bibl default='NO'>Bertram W. Korn, <title>American Jewry and the Civil War</title> (Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1951), 200.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-11-04'>Friday, November 4, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President approves location of first 100 miles of Union Pacific 
Railroad west from Omaha, Nebr.
<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%3A187' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Approval of First Hundred Miles of Union Pacific Railroad</xref>, 4 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:89.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with John A. Stewart, U.S. treasury official in New York, 
regarding conspiracy among certain bankers to raise price of gold on 
election day.
<bibl default='NO'>Benjamin F. Butler, <title>Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences . . . Butler's Book</title> (Boston: A. M. Thayer, 1892), 762-63.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Mrs. Hutter who urges four asylums in each state to care 
for war orphans and destitute persons.
<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%3A190' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum</xref>, [c. 4 November 1864], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:90.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Issues order concerning prisoners involved in Coles County riots: 
"Let these prisoners be sent back to Coles County, Ill., those 
indicted be surrendered to the sheriff of said county, and the others 
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%3A191' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Concerning Prisoners from Coles County, Illinois</xref>, 4 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:90.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-11-05'>Saturday, November 5, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln sends autographed photograph to Mrs. Henry A. Wise of Boston 
for use of National Sailors' Fair.
<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%3A197' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charlotte B. Wise</xref>, 5 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:92-93.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives October salary warrant for $1,981.67.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Loans M. B. Church, former law student in office of Lincoln &amp; 
Herndon, $260 for five months. [This was never repaid. <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> 
requested administrator not to try to collect it.]
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 82.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-11-06'>Sunday, November 6, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President sends order through Gen. Canby at New Orleans to Rear Adm. 
Farragut at Mobile Bay: "Do not, on any account, or on any showing of 
authority whatever, from whomsoever purporting to come, allow the 
blockade to be violated."
<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%3A225' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to David G. Farragut</xref>, 11 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:103-4.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Sec. Seward at Auburn, N.Y.: "Nothing of much importance."
<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%3A200' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 6 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:94.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-11-07'>Monday, November 7, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President directs Gen. Butler to avoid clash between U.S. military 
forces and state militia during election in New York.
<bibl default='NO'>Butler, <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>, 5:329.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders five-day leave, with pass and transportation to and from 
Philadelphia, for Lt. A. W. White.
<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%3A203' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Concerning A. W. White</xref>, 7 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:95.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Deposits April salary warrant for $2,022.33 and July salary warrant 
for $1,981.67 in Riggs Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Elizabeth S. Comstock, Quaker minister, pays evening call; reads to 
Lincoln from Book of Isaiah, 9th to 13th verses. "Mr. Lincoln was 
highly gratified with the interview, and before taking her leave she 
kneeled in prayer, while he joined in the reverend 
[<uLine>sic</uLine>] attitude."
<bibl default='NO'>Armory Square Hospital Gazette, 26 November 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-11-08'>Tuesday, November 8, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President interviews Mary E. Collins about special
  exchange of Capt. William A. Collins, Co. D, 10th Wisconsin Infantry. <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%3A204' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ethan A. Hitchcock</xref>, 8 November 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:95.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Recognizes
  Teodoro Manara as consul of Republic of Guatemala at New York. <bibl default='NO'>Washington
  Chronicle, 11 November 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Tad discovers that soldiers
  quartered in White House grounds are voting for Lincoln and Johnson. Makes
  father go to window and watch. <bibl default='NO'>Noah Brooks, "Personal Reminiscences of
  Lincoln," <title>Scribner's Monthly</title> 15 (1877/1878):675.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  At noon Lincoln discusses election with Noah Brooks. <bibl default='NO'>Randall,
  <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 4:259.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Receives from Carlos Pierce mammoth ox called "General Grant." <bibl default='NO'>Rice to
  Lincoln, 22 November 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A207' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Alexander H. Rice</xref>, 8 November 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:96-97.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [6:30 P.M.
  John Nicolay in Springfield, Ill., reports majority of 20 for Lincoln in
  township. <bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Lincoln, 8 November 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln
  Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl>] </p>
         <p> At 7 P.M. in rain President and John Hay go to
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> 's office in War Dept. to receive
  election returns. <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person> and Sec. Welles, Asst.
  Secs. Fox and Dana, and others are present. During lull in telegraphic reports
  Lincoln reads aloud from writings of Nasby. <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person> expresses indignation at nonsense. At mid-night
  Maj. Eckert provides supper. Lincoln "shovels out fried oysters." During
  evening and night former Sec. Chase, Col. Eaton, Whitelaw Reid, correspondent
  for Cincinnati "Gazette," and others pay short visits. <bibl default='NO'>Hay,
  <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>; Charles A. Dana,
  <title>Recollections of the Civil War. With the Leaders at Washington and in
  the Field in the Sixties</title> (New York: Appleton, 1902), 261; Rufus R.
  Wilson, ed., <title>Intimate Memories of Lincoln</title> (Elmira, NY: Primavera
  Press, 1942), 577-78.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> "I have the honor to resign my commission
  as a Major General in the Army of the U.S.A., with the request that it may be
  accepted to take effect today. I am, sir, very respectfully, George B.
  McClellan." <bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;WR RG 94, Adjt. Gen. Off., Letters Received, M1250
  (CB) 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes managing committee of Sailors' Fair
  in Boston: "Allow me to wish you a great success. . . . To all, from Rear
  Admiral, to honest Jack I tender the Nation's admiration and gratitude." <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%3A205' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Managing Committee of the Sailors' Fair</xref>, 8 November 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:95.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Informs Sec.
  Seward at Auburn, N.Y.: "News from Grant, Sherman, Thomas and Rosecrans,
  satisfactory, but not important. Pirate Florida captured by the Wauchusetts
  [U.S.S. "Wachusett"] Oct. 7th. on coast of Brazil. The information is certain."
  <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%3A208' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 8 November 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:97.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-11-09'>Wednesday, November 9, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Between 1 and 2 A.M. President is serenaded and
  makes speech. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 10 November 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At
  2 A.M. is serenaded and makes speech. <bibl default='NO'>Randall,
  <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 4:260.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Capt.
  Thomas arrives with band and group of Pennsylvanians about 2:30 A.M. Lincoln
  speaks from window and then returns to White House. <bibl default='NO'>Hay,
  <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A206' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Response
  to a Serenade</xref>, 8 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:96.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> "Abraham Lincoln has
  been elected by an overwhelming majority." <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 9 November
  1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln dictates telegram to be sent to Dr. Henry;
  decides "I don't believe it would look well for a message from me to go
  traveling around the country blowing my own horn"; so Noah Brooks signs it. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Noah Brooks, "Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln," <title>Scribner's
  Monthly</title> 15 (1877/1878):677;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A212' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Anson G. Henry</xref>, 9 November 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:98.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Declines
  invitation to meeting in rooms of Union League Club of New York, honoring Prof.
  Goldwin Smith of Oxford. <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%3A210' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Charles Butler</xref>, 9 November 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:97-98.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Presents
  ox, "General Grant," to National Sailors' Fair in Boston. <bibl default='NO'>Washington
  Chronicle, 13 November 1864; Rice to Lincoln, 22 November 1864, Robert Todd
  Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Informs Commissioner French: "If Commissioner of Public
  Buildings chooses to give laborers at White House a holiday I have no
  objections." <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%3A211' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Benjamin B. French</xref>, 9 November 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:98.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-11-10'>Thursday, November 10, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Miss Brady, daughter of former Cong. Jasper E. 
Brady (Pa.), who is probably seeking employment.
<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%3A216' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William Dennison</xref>, 10 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:99.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Informs H. W. Hoffman that Baltimore soldiers in Army of Potomac cast 
1,428 votes, of which 1,160 were for Union ticket.
<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%3A217' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Hoffman</xref>, 10 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:100.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Mrs. Ella E. G. Hobart, who wants to be chaplain of 1st 
Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, and sends her to 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
, who refuses 
appointment to a woman.
<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%3A222' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 10 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:102-3.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln and Johnson Clubs of Washington, Georgetown, and Giesboro 
Point (opposite Arsenal) march to White House at night and serenade 
President, who appears at second-floor window and makes speech.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 10 November 1864, 11 November 1864; Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A219' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Response to a Serenade</xref>, 10 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:100-2.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gov. Bramlette (Ky.): "If however, Gen. [John B.] Houston has 
been arrested for no other cause than opposition to my re-election 
Gen. Burbridge will discharge him at once, I sending him a copy of 
this as an order to that effect."
<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%3A214' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas E. Bramlette</xref>, 10 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:98-99.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Requests Gen. Burbridge to report on arrest of Houston.
<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%3A215' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Stephen G. Burbridge</xref>, 10 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:99.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-11-11'>Friday, November 11, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. President gives John Hay sealed document and asks him 
to open it. Cabinet members learn contents for first time, although 
they signed it on August 23, 1864. Contents pledged them to support 
President-elect after November election.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Atty. Gen. Bates presents several of his friends to President.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President discusses with J. W. Forney and F. Carroll Brewster, city 
solicitor of Philadelphia, case of Cozzens, charged with supplying 
tents to government in violation of army regulations.
<bibl default='NO'>Forney to Lincoln, 5 November 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with Sec. Seward on seizure of steamer "Florida" in Brazilian port.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 31 December 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives from Gen. Grant congratulations on victory at polls.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 11 November 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-11-12'>Saturday, November 12, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Col. Julius C. Kretchmar, 103d New York 
Volunteers, and sends him to Gen. Marsena R. Patrick, provost marshal 
general, Army of Potomac.
<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%3A231' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Marsena R. Patrick</xref>, 12 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:105-6.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives former Cong. Bingham (Ohio) regarding pass for Mrs. E. M. 
Bradley of Kentucky.
<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%3A226' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement</xref>, [c. 12 November 1864], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:104.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Notifies Gen. John A. Logan that leave for him to visit Washington 
was granted some days ago, subject to countermand by Gen. Sherman.
<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%3A229' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John A. Logan</xref>, 12 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:105.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-11-13'>Sunday, November 13, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President continues to receive many telegrams relative to election.
<bibl default='NO'>November 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='1864-11-14'>Monday, November 14, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President accepts resignation of Gen. McClellan and
  appoints Gen. Sheridan to rank of major general. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 16
  November 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> O. H. Browning at White House in evening learns
  that President has not started on his Message to Congress. <bibl default='NO'>Browning,
  <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes
  Gen. Hurlbut: "Few things, since I have been here, have impressed me more
  painfully than what, for four or five months past, has appeared as bitter
  military opposition to the new State Government of 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=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A235' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Stephen A. Hurlbut</xref>, 14 November 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:106-8.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-11-15'>Tuesday, November 15, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln interviews Mrs. Gimber and directs her to Gen. Hitchcock.
<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%3A240' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ethan A. Hitchcock</xref>, 15 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:110.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Attends Grover's Theatre to see E. L. Davenport in role of Hamlet.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 17 November 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Asks governors to tell him exactly, or approximately, number of votes 
cast in their states in late election. Information needed for 
forthcoming Annual Message.
<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%3A237' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel A. Cony and Others</xref>, 15 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:108-10.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs chairman, Maryland State Central Committee of Union Party: 
"I shall be happy to receive the committee on Thursday morning 
(17th.) as you propose."
<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%3A242' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Purnell</xref>, 15 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:111.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Asks Gen. Thomas how much force and artillery Gen. Gillem had, when 
attacked and routed near Morristown, Tenn., last night.
<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%3A243' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George H. Thomas</xref>, 15 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:111-12.</bibl>
         </p>
         <quote>
            <p>
[General William T. Sherman begins his march from Atlanta to the sea.]
</p>
         </quote>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-11-16'>Wednesday, November 16, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln interviews Jean J. Giers, of Alabama, who asks for small-arm 
ammunition needed by loyal people in northern Alabama.
<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%3A245' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 16 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:112.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Consults with Thurlow Weed about recent elections.
<bibl default='NO'>Weed to Lincoln, 16 November 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='1864-11-17'>Thursday, November 17, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Union Maryland Central Committee calls on President by appointment. 
Montgomery Blair introduces each member to Lincoln. William H. 
Purnell, chairman, delivers an address, and President replies that 
his pleasure from recent election consists in belief that policy he 
has pursued will be the best and only one that can save the country.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 18 November 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%3A249' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to Maryland Union Committee</xref>, 17 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:113-14.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Asst. Sec. Dana delivers two letters forwarded by Gen. Dix to 
President. President looks at letters and seems to think them of 
little importance. [Letters were picked up in New York by Mrs. 
Hudspeth and sent to Dix. They later became part of evidence in trial 
of Lincoln conspirators.]
<bibl default='NO'>Charles A. Dana, <title>Recollections of the Civil War.  With the Leaders at Washington and in the Field in the Sixties</title> (New York: Appleton, 1902), 276.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[John Nicolay confined to sickbed in Lindell Hotel, St. Louis.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 19 November 1864.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
Lincoln submits to Sec. Seward plan of H. P. Livingston to assist in 
putting down rebellion by purchasing controlling interest in Southern 
newspapers.
<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%3A250' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 17 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:114.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-11-18'>Friday, November 18, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with William P. Wood, superintendent, Old Capitol 
Prison, regarding Negro soldier sentenced to die. Grants respite of 
one week. [Soldier hanged 25th.]
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 19 November 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Proclaims treaty and convention between U.S. and Belgium for 
abolition of Scheldt Dues.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 30 November 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Deposits September salary warrant for $1,981.66 in Riggs Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
The Rev. and Mrs. Phineas D. Gurley are dinner guests.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:567.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-11-19'>Saturday, November 19, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President lifts blockade on Norfolk, Fernandina,
  Fla., and Pensacola, Fla. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 21 November 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%3A252' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation
  Concerning Blockade</xref>, 19 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:115.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Issues second order
  to release Indian "Big Eagle" from confinement 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%3A254' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Alfred Sully</xref>, 19 November 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:116.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-11-20'>Sunday, November 20, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Writes Charles A. Dana, asking him to see Mr. Stokes.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:568.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-11-21'>Monday, November 21, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes famous letter to Mrs. Lydia Bixby. [Although original 
manuscript is generally believed to be lost, an authentic text 
appeared in Boston "Transcript," November 25, 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%3A255' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Lydia Bixby</xref>, 21 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:116-17.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Cyrus M. Allen of Vincennes, Ind., who speaks for 
appointment of Joseph G. Bowman, colleague of Lincoln in Illinois 
Legislature in 1839, as assessor of internal revenue.
<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%3A256' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William P. Fessenden</xref>, 21 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:117.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Expresses personal gratitude to John Phillips, age 104, who voted Union ticket.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 9 December 1864; Washington Star, 9 December 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%3A257' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John Phillips</xref>, 21 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:118.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[John Nicolay not seriously ill, expects to be out in few days.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 21 November 1864.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
Writes former Cong. Augustus R. Wright (Ga.): "Admitting that your 
cotton was destroyed by the Federal Army, I do not suppose any-thing 
could be done for you now. Congress has appropriated no money for 
that class of claims, and will not, I expect, while the active war 
lasts."
<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%3A261' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Augustus R. Wright</xref>, 21 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:119-20.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-11-22'>Tuesday, November 22, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with A. G. Hodges and Gen. Samuel G. Suddarth, of 
Kentucky State Militia, in hope of devising means of harmony for 
Kentucky.
<bibl default='NO'>Hodges to Lincoln, 1 December 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A262' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas E. Bramlette</xref>, 22 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:120.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Gov. Morton (Ind.) regarding war news printed in 
Indianapolis "Daily Journal."
<bibl default='NO'>Harper, <title corresp='books_Harper'>Press</title>, 332.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives information that ox presented to National Sailors' Fair 
brought $3,200.
<bibl default='NO'>Rice to Lincoln, 22 November 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Elizabeth Todd Grimsley seeks appointment as postmaster at Springfield, Ill.
<bibl default='NO'>Grimsley to Lincoln, 22 November 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='1864-11-23'>Wednesday, November 23, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Gen. Grant and staff in Washington conduct long interviews with 
President, 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
, and Gen. Halleck.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 23 November 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sen. Ramsey (Minn.) visits President and secretary of war. "President 
in fine spirits."
<bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 1250.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-11-24'>Thursday, November 24, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives letter of resignation from Atty. Gen. Bates.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates to Lincoln, 24 November 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='1864-11-25'>Friday, November 25, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. President reads draft of Annual Message to Congress.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Replies to inquiry of Gov. Curtin (Pa.): "I have no knowledge, 
information, or belief, that three States, or any state, offer to 
resume allegiance."
<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%3A265' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew G. Curtin</xref>, 25 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:121.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[John Hay, for Lincoln, thanks George B. Smith for present of piece of beef.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:569.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-11-26'>Saturday, November 26, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> At 10 A.M., before an informal gathering in White
  House, President receives gift of elkhorn chair from its maker, Seth Kinman,
  California hunter. Clinton Lloyd of Pennsylvania makes presentation speech to
  which Lincoln replies briefly. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 26 November 1864;
  Washington Chronicle, 27 November 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President consults with
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> in morning about sending Gen. Banks
  to New Orleans. [They concluded that he should go; but Banks remained in
  Washington four months longer.] <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%3A266' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Nathaniel P. Banks</xref>, 26 November 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:121.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews
  Banks at 7 P.M. by appointment. <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%3A286' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Nathaniel P. Banks</xref>, 2 December 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:131.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Offers Judge
  Adv. Gen. Holt post of attorney general. <bibl default='NO'>Holt to Lincoln, 30 November
  1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sec. Welles calls on President and
  presents abstract for Annual Message. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-11-28'>Monday, November 28, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President continues to receive many appropriate gifts of Thanksgiving 
Day season.
<bibl default='NO'>November 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='1864-11-29'>Tuesday, November 29, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Judge Samuel M. Breckinridge of St. Louis 
regarding case of Capt. John B. Castleman, Confederate prisoner 
charged with spying and released without trial on condition that he 
leave U.S.
<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%3A272' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Alvin P. Hovey</xref>, 29 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:123; Jonathan T. Dorris, <title>Pardon and Amnesty under Lincoln and Johnson: The Restoration of the Confederates to their Rights and Privileges, 1861-1898</title> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953), 83-84.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Addresses identical letters to nine governors: "May I renew my 
request for the exact aggregate vote of your State cast at the late 
election? My object fails if I do not receive it before Congress 
meets."
<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%3A274' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William M. Stone and Others</xref>, 29 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:124.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-11-30'>Wednesday, November 30, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
John W. Tatum, Delaware, and Joseph Tatum, New Jersey, members of 
Society of Friends, call on President in interest of three Friends 
confined among Confederate prisoners at Point Lookout, Md.
<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%3A276' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement Concerning John W. and Joseph Tatum</xref>, 30 November 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:124-25.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln consults with Judge Adv. Gen. Holt regarding position of 
attorney general. Holt recommends James Speed.
<bibl default='NO'>Holt to Lincoln, 1 December 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Recognizes Nicola Nicolas as vice consul of Italy at Louisville, Ky.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 2 December 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with Atty. Gen. Bates, who asks release of Dr. Richard G. 
Wharton from Vicksburg, Miss., prison.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates to Lincoln, 2 December 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
John Nicolay returns to his post after recovering from serious illness.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 1 December 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>