<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-01'>Thursday, December 1, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President telegraphs James Speed: "I appoint you to be Attorney 
General. Please come on at once."
<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%3A282' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James Speed</xref>, 1 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:126-27.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Resignation of Atty. Gen. Bates effective today. On taking leave, 
President promises to write to him.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Two ladies from Tennessee visit President again and ask release of 
husbands from Johnson's Island prison.
<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%3A301' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Story Written for Noah Brooks</xref>, [6 December 1864], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:154-55.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-02'>Friday, December 2, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with Cong. Colfax (Ind.), who urges appointment of 
S. P. Chase as Chief Justice of Supreme Court.
<bibl default='NO'>H. W. Smith, 202-3.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Again sees Tennessee ladies seeking release of husbands from 
Johnson's Island prison.
<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%3A301' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Story Written for Noah Brooks</xref>, [6 December 1864], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:154-55.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-12-03'>Saturday, December 3, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President orders that war steamer "<ship teiForm='name'>Funayma
  Solace</ship>" "should not be allowed to proceed to Japan," and Secretary of
  Navy is authorized to buy it. <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%3A288' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order
  Concerning the Steamer <ship teiForm='name'>Funayma Solace</ship> 
               </xref>, 3 December 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:131-32.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Talks with
  Noah Brooks about people speculating on appointment of S. P. Chase to be chief
  justice. <bibl default='NO'>Noah Brooks, "Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,"
  <title>Scribner's Monthly</title> 15 (1877/1878):677.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Reads
  next Annual Message at special cabinet meeting. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Indianapolis
  "Sentinel" calls attention to fact that Robert Lincoln is still not in uniform.
  <bibl default='NO'>Harper, <title corresp='books_Harper'>Press</title>, 331.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  [Irwin withdraws $50 from Lincoln's account in Springfield Marine Bank. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>,
  178.</bibl>] </p>
         <p> Orders release of husbands of Tennessee ladies who had
  visited him December 1, 1864 and yesterday. <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%3A301' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Story
  Written for Noah Brooks</xref>, [6 December 1864],
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:154-55.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-04'>Sunday, December 4, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President plans to send Annual Message to Congress on Tuesday, 
December 6, 1864.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 4 December 1864, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-05'>Monday, December 5, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews A. H. Markland, who leaves for Savannah, Ga., to 
meet Gen. Sherman.
<bibl default='NO'>Dennison to Lincoln, 5 December 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lord Lyons takes leave of President and Sec. Seward. Goes to New York 
to improve his health.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 7 December 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President, with <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and Sec. Seward, attends Grover's 
Theatre for performance of Gounod's "Faust" by Grand German Opera 
Company. ["Robert Le Diable" was postponed.]
<bibl default='NO'>Washington National Republican, 6 December 1864; National Intelligencer, 5 December 1864; Washington Chronicle, 4 December 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln receives November salary warrant for $1,981.67.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President recommends to Senate that Comdr. William H. Macomb (USN) be 
advanced in grade 10 numbers for distinguished conduct at capture of 
Plymouth, N.C., and that Lt. Comdr. James B. Thornton (USN), 
executive officer of U.S.S. "Kearsarge," be advanced in grade 10 
numbers for faithful discharge of duties in action against 
Confederate steamer "Alabama" on June 19, 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%3A293' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 5 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:133-34.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Recommends to Congress that Lt. [Lt. Comdr. as of October 27, 1864, 
by retroactive promotion] William B. Cushing (USN) receive vote of 
thanks from Congress for destroying Confederate steamer "Albemarle" 
on October 27, 1864, and that Capt. [Commodore as of June 19, 1864, 
by retroactive promotion] John A. Winslow (USN) receive vote of 
thanks from Congress for skill and gallantry while commanding 
"Kearsarge" at time "Alabama" was destroyed.
<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%3A295' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 5 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:134-35; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A296' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 5 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:135.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-12-06'>Tuesday, December 6, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Joint Committee announces to President that
  Congress is ready to receive communications. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Senate
  Journal</title>, 6.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President communicates Annual Message to
  Congress: Condition of foreign affairs reasonably satisfactory. No differences
  of any kind have arisen with republics to the south, and their sympathies are
  constantly expressed with cordiality. China seems to be accepting conventional
  laws which regulate commercial intercourse, and friendship of Japan toward U.S.
  has increased. Several ports have been opened and immigration encouraged.
  Financial affairs have been administered successfully. Public debt is
  $1,740,690,489. Money required to meet expenses of war derived from taxes
  should be increased. National banking system is proving to be acceptable to
  capitalists and to the people. Organization and admission of state of Nevada
  completed. Territories growing rapidly. Newly established Agriculture Dept.
  recommended to continued care of Congress. Movements that mold society for
  durability have occurred&#8212;Arkansas and Louisiana have organized loyal
  state governments. President recommends reconsideration and passage of proposed
  amendment to Constitution, abolishing slavery. In midst of war nation's
  material resources and manpower are more complete and abundant than ever. On
  basis of accessible evidence it would seem that no attempt at negotiation with
  insurgent leader could result in any good. "The war will cease on the part of
  the government, whenever it shall have ceased on the part of those who began
  it." <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%3A298' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Annual
  Message to Congress</xref>, 6 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:136-53.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President sends
  nomination to Senate: "I nominate Salmon P. Chase of Ohio, to be Chief Justice
  of the Supreme Court of the United States vice Roger B. Taney, deceased." 
  <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%3A300' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 6 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:154.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Responds to crowd
  assembled at White House to congratulate him on Annual Message: "I have no good
  news to tell you, and yet I have no bad news to tell. . . . We all know where
  he [Gen. Sherman] went in at, but I can't tell where he will come out at." 
  <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%3A299' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Response
  to a Serenade</xref>, 6 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:154.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cabinet meets. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Cong. Alley (Mass.) visits President, who allegedly says: "Although I may have
  appeared to you and to Mr. Sumner to have been opposed to Chase's appointment,
  there has never been a moment since the breath left old Taney's body that I did
  not conceive it to be the best thing to do. . . ." <bibl default='NO'>Clarence E. Macartney,
  <title>Lincoln and His Cabinet</title> (New York: Scribner, 1931), 267.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [See December 10, 1864] Sends for Noah Brooks who finds him recording
  incident of Tennessee ladies [See December 1, 1864, December 2, 1864, December
  3, 1864.], labelling it "The President's Last, Shortest, and Best Speech." 
  <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%3A301' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Story
  Written for Noah Brooks</xref>, [6 December 1864],
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:154-55.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-07'>Wednesday, December 7, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with Cong. Francisco Perea (New Mexico Terr.), 
delegate to Republican National Convention, regarding appointments.
<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%3A309' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum Concerning New Mexico Appointments</xref>, 7 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:157.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Senate documents relative to aid furnished by British 
subjects to rebellion.
<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%3A310' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 7 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:157-58.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Sen. Hicks (Md.) again regarding Maryland commission to 
investigate character, decide loyalty, and issue certificates.
<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%3A312' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 7 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:158.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Consults with Abel R. Corbin, party worker, about vote in House of 
Representatives on constitutional amendment.
<bibl default='NO'>Corbin to Lincoln, 8 December 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase makes social call on President.
<bibl default='NO'>Randall, <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 4:273.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-08'>Thursday, December 8, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews David McDonald, of Indianapolis, Ind., who 
thanks him for appointment as judge of U.S. District Court.
<bibl default='NO'>McDonald to Lincoln, 15 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%3A114' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Godlove S. Orth</xref>, 13 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:47.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-09'>Friday, December 9, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln attends theater accompanied by Sen. Summer (Mass.) and others.
<bibl default='NO'>George S. Bryan, <title>The Great American Myth</title> (New York: Carrick &amp; Evans, 1940), 69.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Dr. Robert K. Stone, Lincoln family physician, to call at 9 A.M. 
tomorrow to talk about way to oblige his wife's family in Richmond.
<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%3A321' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert K. Stone</xref>, 9 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:161.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-12-10'>Saturday, December 10, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President creates special commission consisting of
  Gen. W. F. Smith and Henry Stanbery, former attorney general of Ohio, to
  investigate and report upon civil and military administration in
  militarydivision bordering upon and west of Mississippi River. <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%3A323' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order
  Appointing Commissioners to Investigate the Military Division Bordering upon
  and West of the Mississippi</xref>, 10 December 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:161-62.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln
  "intended" to give chief justiceship to Montgomery Blair "but was forced to
  give it to Chase. L. said he would sooner have eat flat irons than do it." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [See December 8, 1864.] Interviews Mr. Blondeel and H. A.
  Risley about "some countrymen of Mr. Blondeel." <bibl default='NO'>Risley to Nicolay, 10
  December 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers,
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sees Thomas Nast,
  illustrator for "Harper's Weekly," on introduction of George W. Curtis of New
  York, leading member of National Union Convention. <bibl default='NO'>Curtis to Lincoln, 9
  December 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers,
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives letter of
  resignation from Marshal Lamon, because Lincoln does not take proper
  precautions against assassination. <bibl default='NO'>George S. Bryan, <title>The Great
  American Myth</title> (New York: Carrick &amp; Evans, 1940), 69.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-12'>Monday, December 12, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Cong. William H. Randall (Ky.) and orders 
discharge of two prisoners of war.
<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%3A327' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order for Discharge of Thomas Rice and Reuben Turner</xref>, 12 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:165.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends request to Sen. Lane (Ind.): "Please call and see me at once."
<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%3A326' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry S. Lane</xref>, 12 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:165.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Directs Sec. Seward to study problem of seizure by Danish government 
of 2,200 carbines belonging to U.S. citizens.
<bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 15 December 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Reviews for Gen. Canby motive of government in questions of cotton 
and Louisiana state government. "I do not wish either . . . to take 
precedence of the military . . . but there is a strong public reason 
for treating each with so much favor as may not be substantially 
detrimental to the military."
<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%3A325' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edward R. S. Canby</xref>, 12 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:163-65.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-13'>Tuesday, December 13, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President transmits to Senate treaties with Republics of Haiti and Honduras.
<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%3A331' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 13 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:166-67; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A332' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 13 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:167.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes recommendation: "I shall be glad if Capt. Goodenow [Ira 
Goodnow, doorkeeper of House of Representatives] can &amp; will find 
a suitable position for this fine little boy."
<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%3A330' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ira Goodnow</xref>, 13 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:166.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-14'>Wednesday, December 14, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President proclaims ratification of treaty with Tabeguache Band of 
Utah Indians.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 18 December 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes note to Sec. Seward: "Will the Sec. of State please call at once?"
<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%3A335' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 14 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:168.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Presents case to 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
: "I think a man who offers to volunteer 
and is rejected, should not afterwards be drafted and forced to 
serve. This lady alleges that such is the case of her husband. Please 
have the case investigated and reported on."
<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%3A337' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 14 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:168.</bibl>
         </p>
         <quote>
            <p>
[Battle of Nashville begins.]
</p>
         </quote>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-15'>Thursday, December 15, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President holds conference in War Dept. with 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 and Gens. 
Grant and Halleck on removal of Gen. Thomas.
<bibl default='NO'>Randall, <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 4:285.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives news of Battle of Nashville in nightshirt and holding candle 
on second-story landing. 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 and Maj. Eckert carry dispatch to 
White House.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph Office</title>, 316.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-16'>Friday, December 16, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President visits War Dept. telegraph office early in morning and 
sends congratulations to Gen. Thomas.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph Office</title>, 319; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A341' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George H. Thomas</xref>, 16 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:169.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives committee from Freedmen's Aid Society of Baltimore.
<bibl default='NO'>Townsend to Lincoln, 14 December 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Introduces new attorney general, James Speed, at cabinet meeting.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-12-17'>Saturday, December 17, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President confers with Asst. Sec. Fox who explains
  why President should interview William E. Chandler, New Hampshire lawyer
  employed by Navy Dept. to investigate frauds. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-18'>Sunday, December 18, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President discusses with Montgomery Blair and Gen. Banks Cong. 
Ashley's (Ohio) bill regarding states in rebellion.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-19'>Monday, December 19, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives invitation by hand of former Cong. Ashmun (Mass.) 
to attend Soldiers' Fair at Springfield, Mass., and declines.
<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%3A345' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ladies Managing the Solders' Fair at Springfield, Massachusetts</xref>, 19 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:171.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Issues call for 300,000 volunteers.
<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%3A346' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Calling for 300,000 Volunteers</xref>, 19 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:171-72.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Recognizes Henri Enderis as consul of Swiss Confederation at Chicago 
for states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 22 December 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Attends promenade concert at Ford's Theatre.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 20 December 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews O. H. Browning at White House in evening.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Declines invitation to be present at annual festival of New England 
Society to commemorate landing of Pilgrims.
<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%3A344' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph H. Choate</xref>, 19 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:170.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-20'>Tuesday, December 20, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. Three members present.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln interviews H. T. Blow about case of L. A. Welton.
<bibl default='NO'>Blow to Lincoln, 20 December 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with Gen. Banks about duties in New Orleans.
<bibl default='NO'>Banks to Lincoln, 20 December 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Recognizes Dennis Donohoe as consul of Great Britain at New Orleans.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 23 December 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Recognizes Moritz von Baumbach as consul at Milwaukee for Duchy of 
Saxe Meiningen.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 24 December 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-21'>Wednesday, December 21, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President telegraphs <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> at Continental Hotel in 
Philadelphia: "Do not come on the night train. It is too cold. Come 
in the morning."
<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%3A353' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln</xref>, 21 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:174-75.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews delegation from Baltimore urging retention of H. W. 
Hoffman in customhouse.
<bibl default='NO'>Thomsen to Chestnut, 21 December 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gen. Butler: "I now learn, correctly I suppose, that you have 
ordered an election, . . . to take place on the Eastern Shore of 
Virginia. Let this be suspended, at least until conferrence [sic] 
with me, and obtaining my approval."
<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%3A352' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F. Butler</xref>, 21 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:174.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-22'>Thursday, December 22, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews John Bliss, 1st Vermont Cavalry, who for fear of 
being treated as deserter calls on Lincoln and returns to regiment.
<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%3A358' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Concerning John Bliss</xref>, 22 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:176-77.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Consults with Joseph J. Lewis, commissioner of internal revenue, 
regarding resolution to correct errors in regulations.
<bibl default='NO'>Lewis to Lincoln, 22 December 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives Sen. Lane (Kans.), who returns to Kansas to run for reelection.
<bibl default='NO'>Lane to Lincoln, 20 December 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Seward calls on President with letter from former Sen. King 
(N.Y.) recommending John Bigelow, author, editor, and U.S. consul 
general in Paris, to be minister to France.
<bibl default='NO'>King to Seward, 21 December 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. Sherman sends President following dispatch: "I beg to present 
you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah with 150 heavy guns 
&amp; plenty of ammunition &amp; also about 25000 bales of cotton."
<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%3A370' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William T. Sherman</xref>, 26 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:181-82.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President approves amended treasury regulation regarding commercial 
intercourse.
<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%3A356' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Approval of Treasury Regulation No. 55</xref>, 22 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:175-76.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-12-23'>Friday, December 23, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Cabinet meets. Welles tardy. President and Secs.
  Seward and <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person> discuss Welles' presentation
  of case against Beverly S. Osborn, New York newspaperman. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President issues
  order for protection and safe conduct from New Orleans or Memphis, Tenn. to Red
  River and its tributaries to James Harrison, of St. Louis, trading under rules
  of Treasury Dept. <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%3A363' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order
  Concerning James Harrison</xref>, 23 December 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:178.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-24'>Saturday, December 24, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln recognizes R. Barth as consul of Grand Dukedom of Baden at St. Louis.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 30 December 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives Richard C. Parsons, representative of Common Council of 
Cleveland, who presents importance of establishing navy yard on Great 
Lakes.
<bibl default='NO'>Allen to Lincoln, 20 December 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Welles calls on President and gets death sentence commuted and 
obtains pass to Richmond for Laura Jones.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
O. H. Browning confers with Lincoln about permitting James W. 
Singleton, Illinois politician and cotton and tobacco buyer, to go to 
Richmond for purpose of buying cotton.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> send letters to Soldiers' Fair in Springfield, Mass.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 1 January 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President acknowledges receipt of volume "commemorative of the 
celebration in honor of the passage of the Ordinance of Emancipation 
of the State 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%3A365' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas J. Durant</xref>, 24 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:179.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Endorses letter of Samuel D. Lockwood, Batavia, Ill.: "Judge 
Lockwood, the writer, is one of the best men in the world."
<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%3A366' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement Concerning Samuel D. Lockwood</xref>, 24 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:179-80.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Sec. Seward: "Gen. C. S. Todd, once much of a man, is now 
superannuated, and would be an incumbrance upon the Commander in 
New-Orleans, unjustifiable in me to impose upon him." [Charles S. 
Todd, assessor of internal revenue at Owensboro, Ky., asked for 
military appointment under Gen. Banks.]
<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%3A369' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 24 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:181.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-26'>Monday, December 26, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President gives Christmas reception at White House.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 29 December 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gen. Sherman: "Many, many, thanks for your 
Christmas-gift&#8212;the capture of Savannah. When you were about 
leaving Atlanta for the Atlantic coast, I was <uLine>anxious</uLine>, 
if not fearful; . . . Now, the undertaking being a success, the honor 
is all yours; for I believe none of us went farther than to 
acquiesce. . . . But what next? I suppose it will be safer if I leave 
Gen. Grant and yourself to decide."
<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%3A370' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William T. Sherman</xref>, 26 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:181-82.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-27'>Tuesday, December 27, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with Sec. Fessenden regarding appointment to West Point.
<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%3A376' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of Franklin Yeaton</xref>, 27 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:184-85.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln sends for O. H. Browning to come to White House as early as convenient.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay to Browning, 27 December 1864, Orville H. Browning Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers again with him on cotton trade; also inquires about releasing 
William N. Symington from Fort Lafayette, N.Y.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>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%3A377' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Concerning William N. Symington</xref>, 27 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:185.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes John Maclean, president of College of New Jersey, Princeton, 
N.J.: "I have the honor to acknowledge the reception of your noteof 
the 20th of December, conveying the announcement that the Trustees of 
the College of New Jersey have conferred upon me the Degree of Doctor 
of Laws."
<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%3A374' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John Maclean</xref>, 27 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:183-84.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-28'>Wednesday, December 28, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President interviews Charles D.
  Chase regarding business interest in South and gives him letter to Gen. Foster
  at Hilton Head, S.C. <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%3A380' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John G. Foster</xref>, 28 December 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:186-87.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives
  two ladies, relatives of James R. Mallory, under death sentence, and suspends
  execution for six weeks. <bibl default='NO'>Johnson to Lincoln, 3 December 1864, Edwin M.
  Stanton Papers, Library of Congress, Washington DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sec. Welles
  calls on President, "who had a large crowd in attendance, chiefly female." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  President writes Gen. Butler: "If the people [Eastern Shore Virginia] on their
  own motion wish to hold a peaceful meeting I suppose you need not to hinder
  them." <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%3A379' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Benjamin F. Butler</xref>, 28 December 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:186.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Telegraphs
  Gen. Grant at City Point, Va.: "If there be no objection, please tell me what
  you now understand of the Wilmington expedition, present &amp; prospective."
  [Grant reported the expedition "a gross and culpable failure."] <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%3A381' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 28 December 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:187.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-29'>Thursday, December 29, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At 10 A.M. Sec. Welles calls on President. Atty. Gen. Speed joins 
them. They discuss private examination of public papers.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In afternoon Sec. Welles takes to President dispatches concerning 
failure of expedition against Fort Fisher, Wilmington, N.C.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-30'>Friday, December 30, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. Speculations arise regarding trouble between Gen. 
Butler and Rear Adm. Porter.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President decides to remove Butler from command.
<bibl default='NO'>West, <title corresp='books_West'>Welles</title>, 303-5.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Informs Elijah C. Middleton, lithographer in Cincinnati, that from 
eyebrows downward picture he made "appears to me perfect. Above such 
line I think it is not so good."
<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%3A393' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Elijah C. Midddleton</xref>, 30 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:191-92.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-12-31'>Saturday, December 31, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln receives Mrs. G. J. Laurence, of Philadelphia, who desires to 
have her nephew released from prison in Columbia S.C.
<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%3A395' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ethan A. Hitchcock</xref>, 31 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:192.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Establishes offices to receive subscriptions to capital stock of 
Union Pacific Railroad.
<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%3A396' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Designating Offices to Receive Subscriptions to Union Pacific Railroad</xref>, 31 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:192-93.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Welles goes to White House with Commodore John Rodgers, who has 
dispatch from Read Adm. Porter at Fort Fisher, N.C.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President reappoints members of Levy Court.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 1 January 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>