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February 06, 1864

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Saturday, February 6, 1864.
 Washington, DC.

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Lincoln makes one of many sick calls on Cong. Lovejoy (Ill.) and remarks: "This war is eating my life out. I have a strong impression that I shall not live to see the end." Edgar DeW. Jones, Lincoln and the Preachers (New York: Harper, 1948), 69.

During afternoon reception discusses with Francis B. Carpenter, artist, ideas for portraying first reading of Emancipation Proclamation. William O. Stoddard, Lincoln's Third Secretary: The Memoirs of William O. Stoddard, ed. by William O. Stoddard, Jr. (New York: Exposition Press, 1955), 221.

At night O. H. Browning approaches Lincoln on behalf of Mrs. Fitz, who owns slaves and cotton and is a refugee. President, in bad humor, will not discuss matter. Browning, Diary.

[Irwin withdraws $24 from Springfield Marine Bank, to pay insurance on Lincoln's Springfield home. Pratt, Personal Finances, 177.]

"Reception by Mrs. Lincoln exceeded all that have preceded it." Washington Star, 10 February 1864.

Lincoln writes Gen. Banks: "The bearer, Gen. G. [Gustavus] A. Scroggs, of Buffalo, has been appointed colonel of a colored regiment, and is to report with it to you at New Orleans" for assignment in Texas to collect and organize colored men of that state. Abraham Lincoln to Nathaniel P. Banks, 6 February 1864, CW, 7:170-71. 

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Lincoln makes one of many sick calls on Cong. Lovejoy (Ill.) and 
remarks: "This war is eating my life out. I have a strong impression 
that I shall not live to see the end."
<bibl default='NO'>Edgar DeW. Jones, <title>Lincoln and the Preachers</title> (New York: Harper, 1948), 69.</bibl>
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During afternoon reception discusses with Francis B. Carpenter, 
artist, ideas for portraying first reading of Emancipation 
Proclamation.
<bibl default='NO'>William O. Stoddard, <title>Lincoln's Third Secretary: The Memoirs of William O. Stoddard</title>, ed. by William O. Stoddard, Jr. (New York: Exposition Press, 1955), 221.</bibl>
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At night O. H. Browning approaches Lincoln on behalf of Mrs. Fitz, 
who owns slaves and cotton and is a refugee. President, in bad humor, 
will not discuss matter.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
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[Irwin withdraws $24 from Springfield Marine Bank, to pay insurance 
on Lincoln's Springfield home.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 177.</bibl>]
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"Reception by <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> exceeded all that have preceded it."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 10 February 1864.</bibl>
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Lincoln writes Gen. Banks: "The bearer, Gen. G. [Gustavus] A. 
Scroggs, of Buffalo, has been appointed colonel of a colored 
regiment, and is to report with it to you at New Orleans" for 
assignment in Texas to collect and organize colored men of that state.
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