January 30, 1865

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            <date value='1865-01-30'>Monday, January 30, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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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.]
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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%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>
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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>
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