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January 15, 1865

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Sunday, January 15, 1865.
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Cong. Hooper (Mass.) accompanies Prof. Agassiz to White House for visit with Lincoln. Noah Brooks, "Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln," Scribner's Monthly 15 (1877/1878):678.

Sec. Welles receives message from Rear Adm. Porter: "Fort Fisher is ours." Washington Star, 17 January 1865.

Sec. Seward sends notice to government offices to honor memory of Edward Everett who died at 4 A.M. Henry J. Raymond, 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 (New York: Derby & Miller, 1865), 643.

President telegraphs Gen. Grenville M. Dodge at St. Louis to consider possibility of withdrawing troops from northern Missouri. Abraham Lincoln to Grenville M. Dodge, 15 January 1865, CW, 8:217-18. 

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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>
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Sec. Welles receives message from Rear Adm. Porter: "Fort Fisher is ours."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 17 January 1865.</bibl>
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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>
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President telegraphs Gen. Grenville M. Dodge at St. Louis to consider 
possibility of withdrawing troops from northern Missouri.
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               <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>
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