February 01, 1864

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            <date value='1864-02-01'>Monday, February 1, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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President directs 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 to have transport sent to Negro colony 
established on Ile &#224; Vache and to bring back all who wish to 
return.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A344' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 1 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:164-65.</bibl>
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Orders that draft for 500,000 men, to serve for three years or during 
war, be made on March 10, 1864 next.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A343' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order for Draft of 500,000 Men</xref>, 1 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:164.</bibl>
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Interviews Capt. Ulric Dahlgren, who has waited from 11 A.M. until 4 
P.M. They discuss personal and military matters while Lincoln is 
being shaved.
<bibl default='NO'>Dahlgren to Dahlgren, 1 February 1864, John A. Dahlgren Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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