<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-01'>Sunday, January 1, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[New Year's Day reception postponed until January 2, 1865.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-02'>Monday, January 2, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At 12 M. President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> received diplomatic corps and 
cabinet officers, to begin time-honored custom of New Year's Day 
reception at White House. Military and Supreme Court justices follow 
at 12:30 P.M., and public at 1 P.M. "At half past two the jam was 
terrible."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 2 January 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Welles remains until 4 P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Correspondent for "Scientific American has brief interview with President.
<bibl default='NO'>Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of War</title>, 289.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln receives delegation of Kentuckians who apply "to have Gen. 
Butler assigned to a command that should embrace their State."
<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%3A405' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to a Delegation of Kentuckians</xref>, 2 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:195.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Francis D. Blakeslee, clerk in quartermaster general's office, 
accompanied by two ladies, calls on President.
<bibl default='NO'>Rufus R. Wilson, ed., <title>Intimate Memories of Lincoln</title> (Elmira, NY: Primavera Press, 1942), 429.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln decides upon another secret expedition. 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
, at home 
ill, sends for Gen. Meigs and orders boats assembled at Baltimore.
<bibl default='NO'>Diary, Montgomery C. Meigs Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
White House receives complaint that members of Congress were not 
invited to New Year's reception.
<bibl default='NO'>Lamon to Nicolay, 4 January 1865, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-03'>Tuesday, January 3, 1865.</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 asks Sec. Seward to find, if possible, consulate for Col. 
Philip Figyelmesy, former aide-de-camp on staff of Gen. Julius 
Stahel. [Appointment as consul at Demerara, British Guiana, confirmed 
by Senate on January 30, 1865.]
<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%3A406' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 3 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:195-96.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-04'>Wednesday, January 4, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Thornton F. Marshall of Kentucky regarding 
"trade regulations in our portion of Ky."
<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%3A410' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 4 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:197.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Discusses problems of dealing in cotton with Fergus Peniston of New 
Orleans, and grants him permit to trade.
<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%3A408' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Cotton Permit for Fergus Peniston</xref>, 4 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:196-97.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Welles consults with Lincoln about employing criminal lawyer to 
represent government.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1865-01-05'>Thursday, January 5, 1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln sends for O. H. Browning in morning. Talks
  about Emily Todd Helm and Martha Todd White, who have cotton to sell. Issues
  passes for J W. Singleton to go south and visit trading posts. <bibl default='NO'>Browning,
  <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Authorizes Asst.
  Sec. Dana to perform duties of secretary of war in absence of
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> . <bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;WR RG 107, Off.
  Sec. War, Orders and Endorsements, BB 15/6237.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives
  committee of Democratic senators from Maryland asking that State Sen.-elect
  Levin L. Waters be released from military custody. <bibl default='NO'>Committee to Lincoln,
  5 January 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers,
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives December salary
  warrant for $1,981.66 and tucks it away in desk. [This is one of four found in
  desk after his death.] <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal
  Finances</title>, 184.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Telegraphs Gen. Grant: "Richard T.
  Jacob, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, is at the Spotswood-House in Richmond
  under an order of Gen. Burbridge not to return to Kentucky. Please communicate
  leave to him to pass your lines, and come to me here at Washington." <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%3A413' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 5 January 186[5],
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:198.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Returns to
  House of Representatives, for revision, joint resolution regarding internal
  revenue act. <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%3A414' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 5 January 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:199.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Issues order
  permitting Robert E. Coxe to bring products through military lines in
  compliance with regulations of treasury. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A415' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order
  Permitting Robert E. Coxe to Bring Products through the Lines</xref>, 5 January
  1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:199-200.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Writes <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person> that "while Gen. Sherman's
  <uLine>'get a good ready'</uLine> is appreciated, and is not to be overlooked,
  <uLine>time</uLine>, now that the enemy is wavering, is more important than
  ever before. Being on the down-hill, &amp; some what confused, keeping him
  going. Please say so much to Genl. 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%3A417' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 5 January 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:201.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-06'>Friday, January 6, 1865.</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>
President receives telegram from Gen. Grant requesting prompt action 
in removing Gen. Butler from command.
<bibl default='NO'>Benjamin F. Butler, <title>Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences . . . Butler's Book</title> (Boston: A. M. Thayer, 1892), 829.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Deposits October salary warrant for $1,981.67 in Riggs Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Scolds Gen. Napoleon J. T. Dana for issuing order requiring 
affidavits of ownership and control over products transported under 
treasury regulations.
<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%3A418' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Napoleon J. T. Dana</xref>, 6 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:201-3.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes check to "Self" for $725.00.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:575.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-07'>Saturday, January 7, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President transmits to Congress copies of two treaties with Belgium, 
with recommendation that necessary appropriation be made.
<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%3A422' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 7 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:203-4.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Welles and Vice Adm. David G. Farragut call on Lincoln to 
discuss capture of Mobile, Ala. and Farragut's command.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President interviews I. W. McVeagh who asks that Eugene Schuyler be 
made secretary of foreign legation.
<bibl default='NO'>McVeagh to Cameron, 2 January 1865, Simon Cameron Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Recognizes Ernest N. M. Godeaux as consul of France at New Orleans.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 14 January 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Accompanied by <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and Tad, visits Grover's Theatre to see 
Avonia Jones in "Leah."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 8 January 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-09'>Monday, January 9, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President transmits to Senate information regarding limitation of 
naval armament on Great Lakes.
<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%3A428' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 9 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:206.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Returns to Sen. Trumbull (Ill.) statement of Gen. Banks, submitted to 
Senate Judiciary Committee, regarding Louisiana state government and 
restates Trumbull's question as to proposed Lousiana Senators: "'Can 
Louisiana be brought into proper practical relations with the Union, 
sooner, by <uLine>admitting</uLine> or by <uLine>rejecting</uLine> 
the proposed Senators.'"
<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%3A429' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull</xref>, 9 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:206-7.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"First evening reception of the season at the Executive Mansion took 
place Monday night."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington National Republican, 13 January 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"The President, who was dressed in a plain suit of black, with white 
kid gloves, stood just inside the door of the Blue or Oval Room, and 
was supported on the left by Deputy Marshal Phillips."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 10 January 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
About 11 P.M. President stops receiving visitors and retires 
upstairs. At 12 P.M. wraps shawl around shoulders and walks to War 
Dept., accompanied by White House guard.
<bibl default='NO'>William H. Crook, <title>Memories of the White House: The Home Life of our Presidents from Lincoln to Roosevelt</title> (Boston: Little, Brown, 1911), 13.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1865-01-10'>Tuesday, January 10, 1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President declares port of St. Albans, Vt., open to
  commerce. <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%3A432' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation
  Concerning Commerce</xref>, 10 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:208-9.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cabinet meets. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Writes J. W. Garrett "to say, <uLine>it is very important to us</uLine>" to
  have coal for making gas, "and not to say that you must <uLine>stop</uLine>
  supplying the army to make room to carry coal. Do all you can for us in
  <uLine>both matters</uLine>." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A431' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John W. Garrett</xref>, 10 January 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:208.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-11'>Wednesday, January 11, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At 9 A.M. President interviews O. H. Browning and W. N. Symington. 
Issues pass for Symington to go to Richmond for exchange.
<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%3A377' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Concerning William N. Symington</xref>, 27 December 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:185; Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Grants permit for Henry J. Eager to transport cotton under treasury 
regulations.
<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%3A433' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Cotton Permit for Henry J. Eager</xref>, 11 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:209-10.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-12'>Thursday, January 12, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Mr. Duncan of Montreal, who has a discovery for 
protection of wood against fire.
<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%3A443' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Montgomery C. Meigs</xref>, 12 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:213.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives Mrs. Maria Davis of Pennsylvania, and grants conditional 
pardon for her son.
<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%3A444' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Concerning David Levy</xref>, 12 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:213-14.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-13'>Friday, January 13, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln will not interview T. M. Jacks, Congressman-elect from first 
district of Arkansas.
<bibl default='NO'>Jacks to Lincoln, 13 January 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gen. Butler: "Yours asking leave to come to Washington is 
received. You have been summoned by the Committee on the Conduct of 
the War to attend here, which of course, you will do."
<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%3A449' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F. Butler</xref>, 13 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:215.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-14'>Saturday, January 14, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> holds her first reception of season. President and 
Robert stand on either side of her. Marine band plays. Large 
attendance.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 15 January 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President writes Gen. Grant to ask what is likely to be done with 
Henry S. Foote, former member of Confederate Congress who was 
captured in attempt to escape from Richmond to Washington.
<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%3A452' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 14 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:216.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-15'>Sunday, January 15, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cong. Hooper (Mass.) accompanies Prof. Agassiz to White House for 
visit with Lincoln.
<bibl default='NO'>Noah Brooks, "Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln," <title>Scribner's Monthly</title> 15 (1877/1878):678.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Welles receives message from Rear Adm. Porter: "Fort Fisher is ours."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 17 January 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Seward sends notice to government offices to honor memory of 
Edward Everett who died at 4 A.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Henry J. Raymond, <title>The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln . . . Together with his State Papers, including his Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations and the Closing Scenes Connected with his Life and Death</title> (New York: Derby &amp; Miller, 1865), 643.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President telegraphs Gen. Grenville M. Dodge at St. Louis to consider 
possibility of withdrawing troops from northern Missouri.
<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%3A454' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Grenville M. Dodge</xref>, 15 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:217-18.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-16'>Monday, January 16, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President grants audience to Mrs. Albert T. Bledsoe, wife of former 
Confederate cabinet officer and once Springfield acquaintance of 
Lincoln, and gives her pass through lines.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A457' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Pass for Mrs. Harriet C. Bledsoe</xref>, 16 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:218.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
F. P. Blair, Sr., returns from interview with President Davis and 
reports to President.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 16 January 1865; Blair to Lincoln, 16 January 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President recognizes Andrew F. Elliott as vice consul of Brazil at New Orleans.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 20 January 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Cong. Perea (New Mexico Terr.) regarding appointment of 
judge in New Mexico.
<bibl default='NO'>Perea to Lincoln, 1 February 1865, 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='1865-01-17'>Tuesday, January 17, 1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President lays before Senate treaty with Chippewa
  Indians of Michigan. <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%3A462' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 17 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:219-20.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cabinet meets.
  Capture of Fort Fisher, N.C., principal subject discussed. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln issues
  order: "Let no depredation be committed upon the property or possessions of the
  'Sisters of Charity' at Nazareth Academy, near Bardstown, Ky." <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%3A461' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order
  Concerning Sisters of Charity of Nazareth</xref>, 17 January 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:219.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-18'>Wednesday, January 18, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with Mr. Goodwin, Chicago lawyer, regarding 
appointment of Edwin C. Larned, partner of Mr. Goodwin.
<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%3A467' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to ? Goodwin</xref>, 18 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:221.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Again interviews F. P. Blair, Sr., regarding peace talks with President Davis.
<bibl default='NO'>Randall, <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 4:328.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with Cong. Ashley (Ohio) about pending amendment to Constitution.
<bibl default='NO'>Memorandum, 18 January 1865, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin deposits in Springfield Marine Bank $182.83, balance of 
principal plus interest on Springfield bond, and withdraws $50.88 to 
pay Lincoln's taxes.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 166, 178.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
Lincoln issues permit to Mrs. R. I. Ward of Louisville, Ky. to 
transport cotton under treasury regulations. [Permit is marked 
"Cancelled."]
<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%3A466' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Cotton Permit for Mrs. R. I. Ward</xref>, 18 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:221.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1865-01-19'>Thursday, January 19,
  1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President Lincoln
  writes to Lieut.-General Ulysses S. Grant regarding Robert Lincoln, the
  President's oldest son, who "wishes to see something of the war before it
  ends." Lincoln instructs Grant to respond with his honest opinion and without
  regard to Lincoln's position as President. Lincoln directs Grant to reserve
  "commission[s]" for more deserving candidates, and asks if Robert
  "could...without embarrassment to you, or detriment to the service," obtain
  "some nominal rank, I, and not the public, furnishing his necessary means?" 
  <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%3A472' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 19 January 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:223-24.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews
  Col. John Coburn regarding exchange of prisoners. <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%3A473' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ethan A. Hitchcock</xref>, 19 January 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:224.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At 11:30 A.M.
  receives Baron Nicholas G. de Wetterstedt, minister plenipotentiary from
  Sweden. <bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 18 January 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln
  Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Committee from Maryland Legislature asks President to
  remove H. W. Hoffman and appoint Sen. Hicks (Md.) to place. <bibl default='NO'>Frazier to
  Lincoln, 23 January 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln attends
  ceremonies of U.S. Christian Commission in House of Representatives. <bibl default='NO'>LL,
  No. 450.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Directs <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> to
  consider investigating appeals "made to us by persons claiming to have
  attempted to come through our lines with their effects to take the benefit of
  the Amnesty proclamation." <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%3A477' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 19 January 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:225.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Notifies Sec.
  Usher that he will appoint Vital Jarrot of Illinois, Indian Agent of Sioux on
  the Platte, if there is no objection. <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%3A478' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John P. Usher</xref>, 19 January 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:225-26.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-20'>Friday, January 20, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Mrs. Mary E. Morton regarding seizure of her 
property by provost marshal.
<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%3A485' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph J. Reynolds</xref>, 20 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:228-29.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 reports on his trip to Savannah, Ga.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>, 21 January 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln receives Mr. Abel and gives him card to paymaster general's 
office.
<bibl default='NO'>Brice to Lincoln, January 20, 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders: "That no clearances for the exportation of hay from the United States 
be granted until further orders, unless the same shall have been 
placed on shipboard before the publication hereof."
<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%3A481' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Concerning Export of Hay</xref>, 20 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:227.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1865-01-21'>Saturday, January 21, 1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President receives word from Gen. Grant suggesting
  that Robert join headquarters staff with rank of captain. <bibl default='NO'>David C.
  Mearns, <title>The Lincoln Papers: The Story of the Collection, with selections
  to July 4, 1861</title>, 2 vols. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948),
  1:12.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Recognizes C. F. Mebius as consul at San Francisco for
  Electorate of Hesse Cassel. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 26 January 1865.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> "<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> wore a very heavy black corded
  silk, elaborately trimmed, a shawl of white point lace, and a headdress
  composed of black velvet and lace" at her afternoon reception. <bibl default='NO'>Washington
  Chronicle, 22 January 1865.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-22'>Sunday, January 22, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with Gov. Reuben E. Fenton (N.Y.) in regard to 
filling troop quotas for state.
<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%3A490' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum Concerning the Draft</xref>, [c. 22 January 1865], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:231.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-23'>Monday, January 23, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President spends day reviewing courtmartial cases (45) and military arrests.
<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%3A493' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Christopher C. Augur</xref>, 23 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:232; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A496' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 23 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:233; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A497' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 23 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:233; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A498' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Concerning John Dugan and Christopher V. Hogan</xref>, 23 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:233-34; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A499' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 23 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:234; <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:577.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs W. O. Bartlett at New York: "Please come 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%3A494' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William O. Bartlett</xref>, 23 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:232.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-24'>Tuesday, January 24, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President consults with several members of cabinet and decides that 
Vice President-elect Andrew Johnson should be present for 
inauguration on March 4, 1865.
<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%3A504' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew Johnson</xref>, 24 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:235.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Replies to presentation speech of Rev. William Suddards at head of 
delegation of ladies from Philadelphia Sanitary Fair. Receives vase 
of skeleton leaves from Gettysburg battlefield.
<bibl default='NO'>Randall, <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 3:15-16; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A506' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to Philadelphia Delegation</xref>, 24 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:236; Washington Chronicle, 25 January 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Summons Asst. Sec. Fox to White House for action regarding Confederate 
rams in James River. Vice Adm. Farragut sent down to inspect to 
satisfy President.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln, Secs. Welles and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
, and Farragut confer regarding 
removal of Comdr. William A. Parker (USN), senior officer on upper 
James River.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President telegraphs William A. Menzies of Kentucky: "Wilmington, 
N.C. is ours, of right and in fact."
<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%3A505' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William A. Menzies</xref>, 24 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:235-36.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-25'>Wednesday, January 25, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President is "not receiving any calls" during morning.
<bibl default='NO'>Colfax to Lincoln, 25 January 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes message for celebration of 106th anniversary of birth of 
Robert Burns: "I can not frame a toast to Burns. I can say nothing 
worthy of his generous heart, and transcendent genius."
<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%3A509' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memoranda on Robert Burns</xref>, [25 January 1865], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:237.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Directs 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
: 1. "I wish you would give Dr. Zacharie a pass 
to go to Savannah, remain a week and return, bringing with him, if he 
wishes, his father and sisters or any of them." 2. [Maj. Leopold] 
"Blumenberg, at Baltimore. I think he should have a hearing. . . . He 
should not be dismissed in a way that disgraces and ruins him without 
a hearing."
<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%3A511' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 25 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:238.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Reviews 30 court martial cases.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:578.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-26'>Thursday, January 26, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews committee of working women from Philadelphia 
Arsenal, conducted to White House by J. W. Forney.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 5 February 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs A. Wakeman: "I have telegraphed W. O. Bartlett to come and 
see me. He neither comes nor answers. Can you not send him?" 
[Lincoln's business with Bartlett probably concerned Bennett's 
appointment 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>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1865-01-27'>Friday, January 27, 1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> About 300 members of U.S. Christian Commission,
  attending annual meeting of organization, call on President, who replies
  briefly to address by Rev. G. H. Stuart, chairman. <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%3A520' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply
  to Delegation of Christian Commission</xref>, 27 January 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:241-42.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President
  interviews W. O. Bartlett. <bibl default='NO'>Bartlett to Lincoln, 26 January 1865, Robert
  Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Transmits to Senate communication from attorney
  general regarding nominations. <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%3A521' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 27 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:242-43.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-28'>Saturday, January 28, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with F. P. Blair, Sr., about peace negotiations 
with President Davis.
<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%3A522' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement Concerning Francis P. Blair, Sr.</xref>, 28 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:243.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Official engagements prohibit Lincoln from attending <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>'s 
afternoon reception.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 29 January 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-29'>Sunday, January 29, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President attends third anniversary meeting of U.S. Sanitary 
Commission, held in House of Representatives at night. Requests 
Philip Phillips, soloist, to sing "Your Mission" second time.
<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%3A529' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George H. Stuart</xref>, [29 January 1865], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:245-46.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-01-30'>Monday, January 30, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President sends Maj. Eckert to headquarters of Army of James with 
documents concerning "Peace Mission." One document, prepared for 
Eckert's signature and addressed to A. H. Stephens, former Justice of 
Supreme Court John A. Campbell, and former Sen. Robert M. T. Hunter 
(Va.), provides: "That if you pass through the U.S. Military lines it 
will be understood that you do so for the purpose of an informal 
conference, on the basis of the letter, a copy of which is on the 
reverse side of this sheet." [Lincoln to F. P. Blair, Sr. January 18, 
1865.]
<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%3A465' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Francis P. Blair, Sr.</xref>, 18 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:220-21; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A530' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas T. Eckert</xref>, 30 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:246; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A535' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Thomas T. Eckert to Alexander H. Stephens, John A. Campbell and Robert M. T. Hunter</xref>, [30 January 1865], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:248.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives Col. John E. Whiting, friend from Illinois, with note from 
Sen. Trumbull (Ill.).
<bibl default='NO'>Trumbull to Lincoln, 30 January 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1865-01-31'>Tuesday, January 31,
  1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiFo