January 07, 1865

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            <date value='1865-01-07'>Saturday, January 7, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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President transmits to Congress copies of two treaties with Belgium, 
with recommendation that necessary appropriation be made.
<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%3A422' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 7 January 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:203-4.</bibl>
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         <p>
Sec. Welles and Vice Adm. David G. Farragut call on Lincoln to 
discuss capture of Mobile, Ala. and Farragut's command.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
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         <p>
President interviews I. W. McVeagh who asks that Eugene Schuyler be 
made secretary of foreign legation.
<bibl default='NO'>McVeagh to Cameron, 2 January 1865, Simon Cameron Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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         <p>
Recognizes Ernest N. M. Godeaux as consul of France at New Orleans.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 14 January 1865.</bibl>
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Accompanied by <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and Tad, visits Grover's Theatre to see 
Avonia Jones in "Leah."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 8 January 1865.</bibl>
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