Lincoln Log
Search
Browse Calendar
This Day


1865 >> Jan

January 19, 1865

1 entries found
Thursday, January 19, 1865.
 Washington, DC.

Browse Month

Revised Entry

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?" Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, 19 January 1865, CW, 8:223-24.

Interviews Col. John Coburn regarding exchange of prisoners. Abraham Lincoln to Ethan A. Hitchcock, 19 January 1865, CW, 8:224.

At 11:30 A.M. receives Baron Nicholas G. de Wetterstedt, minister plenipotentiary from Sweden. Seward to Lincoln, 18 January 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Committee from Maryland Legislature asks President to remove H. W. Hoffman and appoint Sen. Hicks (Md.) to place. Frazier to Lincoln, 23 January 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Lincoln attends ceremonies of U.S. Christian Commission in House of Representatives. LL, No. 450.

Directs Sec. Stanton 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." Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 19 January 1865, CW, 8:225.

Notifies Sec. Usher that he will appoint Vital Jarrot of Illinois, Indian Agent of Sioux on the Platte, if there is no objection. Abraham Lincoln to John P. Usher, 19 January 1865, CW, 8:225-26. 

<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>
Show XML