January 16, 1865

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            <date value='1865-01-16'>Monday, January 16, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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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>
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         <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>
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         <p>
President recognizes Andrew F. Elliott as vice consul of Brazil at New Orleans.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 20 January 1865.</bibl>
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         <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>
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