January 25, 1865

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            <date value='1865-01-25'>Wednesday, January 25, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Reviews 30 court martial cases.
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               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:578.</bibl>
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