<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1865-02-01'>Wednesday, February 1, 1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President approves resolution submitting Thirteenth
  Amendment to states. <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%3A548' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Resolution
  Submitting the Thirteenth Amendment to the States</xref>, 1 February 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:253-54.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews
  J. W. Singleton, who has talked with President Davis. <bibl default='NO'>Randall,
  <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 4:330.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Confers
  with Sen. Howe (Wis.) about idea of furloughing sick, proposed in letter of
  Mrs. Porter. <bibl default='NO'>Howe to Lincoln, 1 February 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln
  Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews Henry Ward Beecher relative to outlook for
  peace. <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%3A676' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Henry W. Beecher</xref>, 27 February 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:318-19.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Responds
  to serenade of crowd at White House celebrating passage of resolution sending
  Thirteenth Amendment to states. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 3 February 1865;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A549' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Response
  to a Serenade</xref>, 1 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:254-55.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President seldom
  gets to bed before midnight. <bibl default='NO'>William H. Crook, "Lincoln as I Knew Him.
  Compiled and written down by Margarita S. Gerry," <title>Harper's Monthly
  Magazine</title> 114 (December 1906):110-11.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Telegraphs Maj.
  Eckert at City Point, Va.: "Call at Fortress-Monroe &amp; put yourself under
  direction of Mr. S. [Seward] whom you will find there." <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%3A544' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Thomas T. Eckert</xref>, 1 February 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:252.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Telegraphs
  Gen. Grant: "Let nothing which is transpiring, change, hinder, or delay your
  Military movements, or plans." <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%3A545' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 1 February 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:252.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-02-02'>Thursday, February 2, 1865.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En Route</place> to <place key='36.9667, -76.3500' teiForm='name'>Hampton Roads, VA</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President telegraphs Gen. Grant at 9 A.M.: "Say to the gentlemen 
[Stephens, Hunter, and Campbell] I will meet them personally at 
Fortress-Monroe, as soon as I can get there."
<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%3A554' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 2 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:256.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes check to John G. Nicolay for $20.00.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:579.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Goes by train to Annapolis, Md., where he boards steamer "Thomas 
Collyer," and late in evening arrives at Fortress Monroe. Immediately 
goes on board steamer "River Queen," where Sec. Seward is waiting.
<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%3A592' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 10 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:274-85; Edward C. Kirkland, <title>The Peacemakers of 1864</title> (New York: Macmillan, 1927), 244.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"The President and Mr. Seward have gone to Hampton Roads to have an 
interview with the Rebel commissioners,&#8212;Stephens, Hunter, and 
Campbell."
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-02-03'>Friday, February 3, 1865.</date>
            <place key='36.9667, -76.3500' teiForm='name'>Hampton Roads, VA</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President conducts Hampton Roads Peace Conference for four hours in 
morning aboard "<ship teiForm='name'>River Queen</ship>."
<bibl default='NO'>Randall, <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 4:333; Ulysses S. Grant, <title>Personal Memoirs</title>, 2 vols. (London: Low, Marston, Searle &amp; Rivington, 1886), 2:422.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
After conference visits with A. H. Stephens and promises to see what 
can be done to exchange Stephens' nephew.
<bibl default='NO'>Clarence E. Macartney, <title>Lincoln and His Cabinet</title> (New York: Scribner, 1931), 168; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A561' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles W. Hill</xref>, 4 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:259; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A544' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Alexander H. Stephens</xref>, 10 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:287.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Leaves Fortress Monroe, Va., for return trip to Washington in "<ship teiForm='name'>River 
Queen</ship>" at 5 P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 5 February 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin withdraws $37.74 from Springfield Marine Bank to pay Lincoln's taxes.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 178.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-02-04'>Saturday, February 4, 1865.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> and <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At 7:30 A.M. President leaves Annapolis, Md., following overnight 
trip up Chesapeake Bay from Hampton Roads, Va., on "<ship teiForm='name'>River Queen</ship>." 
Arrives Washington about 9:30 A.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 6 February 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders Lt. John A. Stephens (CSA), nephew of A. H. Stephens and 
prisoner of war on Johnson's Island to report in person to White 
House.
<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%3A561' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles W. Hill</xref>, 4 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:259.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Senate information on condition of Mexico and case of 
French steamer "<ship teiForm='name'>Rhine</ship>."
<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%3A563' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 4 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:259-60.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets in special session to hear reports of President and 
Sec. Seward on Hampton Roads Conference.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President confers with 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 on effect of conference on Gen. 
Grant's military plans and authorizes 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 to telegraph Grant 
"that nothing transpired, or transpiring with the three gentlemen 
from Richmond, is to cause any change hinderance or delay, of your 
military plans or operations."
<bibl default='NO'>Stanton to Grant, 4 February 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> holds afternoon reception from 1 to 3 P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 5 February 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-02-05'>Sunday, February 5, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President reads to cabinet meeting at 7 P.M. proposal for joint 
resolution of Congress whereby payment of $400 million would be 
distributed among 16 states pro rata on their slave population in 
return for cessation of all resistance to national authority by April 
1, 1865. Cabinet unanimously disapproves.
<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%3A565' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, [5 February 1865], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:260-61; Seward to Welles, 5 February 1865, Gideon Welles Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1865-02-06'>Monday, February 6, 1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President interviews Committee of Board of
  Supervisors of New York regarding troop quotas. <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%3A567' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James B. Fry</xref>, 6 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:262-63.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Establishes board
  to examine into proper quotas and credits of respective states. <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%3A571' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order
  to Make Corrections in the Draft</xref>, 6 February 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:264-65.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Public
  reception at White House 8:30 to 11 P.M. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 5 February
  1865.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln receives January salary warrant for $1,981.67. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>,
  184.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1865-02-07'>Tuesday, February 7,
  1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President receives
  Cong. Colfax (Ind.) for talks about Hampton Roads Conference. <bibl default='NO'>Colfax to
  Lincoln, 8 February 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cabinet meets.
  "Very little before the Cabinet." <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President makes brief
  call on F. P. Blair, Sr. <bibl default='NO'>Blair to Lincoln, 8 February 1865, Robert Todd
  Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews A. M. Laws regarding permit to trade in cotton. 
  <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%3A576' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, February 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:267-68.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> R. A.
  Gray, representing H. Jouette Gray of Harrisonburg, Va., calls on President
  relative to collecting ground rents. <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%3A578' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James Speed</xref>, 7 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:268.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes
  William Lloyd Garrison, antislavery leader and publisher, to thank him and
  group of donors for painting entitled "Watch Night-, or Waiting for the Hour." 
  <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%3A573' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William Lloyd Garrison</xref>, 7 February 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:265-66.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President
  Lincoln telegraphs Lieutenant Colonel John Glenn with the 120th Colored
  Infantry, Henderson, Kentucky, in response to reports that Glenn has been
  "forcing negroes into the Military service" using "tortur[e]...to extort their
  consent." Lincoln warns, "The like must not be done by you, or any one under
  you. You must not force negroes any more than white men." <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%3A574' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John Glenn</xref>, 7 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:266.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-02-08'>Wednesday, February 8, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President signs and return to Congress "Joint Resolution declaring 
certain States not entitled to representation in the Electoral 
College," with statement that signing does not express any opinion or 
judgment of his own upon subject of resolution.
<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%3A584' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 8 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:270-71.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews P. E. Bland and William Wallace, representing District of 
West Tennessee, relative to hardships of people.
<bibl default='NO'>Bland and Wallace to Lincoln, 11 February 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gen. Grant for permission to use Grant's dispatch of February 
1, 1865 to 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
, in report to House of Representatives 
regarding "interview with Messrs. Stephens, Hunter &amp; Campbell."
<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%3A582' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 8 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:269-70.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Congress copy of note addressed to secretary of state 
relative to gift of sword to Capt. Henry S. Stellwagen (USN) as mark 
of gratitude for his services to British brigantine "Mersey."
<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%3A585' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 8 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:271.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes former Gov. John G. Smith (Vt.) regarding "the government's 
promise to fairly allow credits for men previously furnished," when 
setting quotas for pending call for 300,00 men.
<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%3A586' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John G. Smith</xref>, 8 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:271-72.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-02-09'>Thursday, February 9, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives delegation from New York Young Men's Republican Union.
<bibl default='NO'>Hoyt to Lincoln, 1 March 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
J. W. Forney calls on Lincoln to announce that Sen. Daniel Clark 
(N.H.) is president pro tempore of Senate.
<bibl default='NO'>Forney to Lincoln, 9 February 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
O. H. Browning confers with President at night and receives letter, 
for delivery to Gen. Grant, relative to trading operations of J. W. 
Singleton.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1865-02-10'>Friday, February 10, 1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President sends to House of Representatives copies
  of all documents pertaining to Hampton Roads Conference. <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%3A592' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 10 February 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:274-85.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Confers
  with Col. Eaton regarding dispute in Congress relative to shifting Freedmen's
  Bureau from War Dept. to Treasury Dept. <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%3A591' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John Eaton</xref>, 10 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:274.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cabinet meets. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Sen. Davis (Ky.) calls on President to discuss release of certain prisoners of
  war. <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%3A616' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement
  Concerning Garrett Davis</xref>, 13 February 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:293-94.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Irwin
  withdraws $24 from Springfield Marine Bank to pay insurance on Lincoln's
  Springfield home. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal
  Finances</title>, 178.</bibl>] </p>
         <p> President encloses to Rear Adm. Porter
  "joint resolution . . . tendering the thanks of Congress to yourself, the
  officers and men under your command, for their gallantry and good conduct in
  the capture of Fort Fisher." <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%3A595' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to David D. Porter</xref>, 10 February 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:285.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Transmits to
  Senate report from secretary of state "concerning recent conversations or
  communications with insurgents." <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%3A596' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 10 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:286-87.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Writes A. H.
  Stephens: "According to our agreement, your nephew, Lieut. Stephens, goes to
  you, bearing this note. Please, in return, to select and send to me, that
  officer of the same rank, imprisoned at Richmond, whose physical condition most
  urgently requires his release." <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%3A598' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Alexander H. Stephens</xref>, 10 February 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:287-88.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-02-11'>Saturday, February 11, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews George T. Hammond, editor of Newport "Daily 
News" and gives him card to "Head of any Department."
<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%3A602' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Heads of Departments</xref>, 11 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:289.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives Jonah M. Davis of Ridge Farm, Ill., who is asking relief for 
Society of Friends in Ellwood Township.
<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%3A607' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 11 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:290.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Assists <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> in welcoming guests to afternoon reception 
attended by Gen. and Mrs. Grant.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 12 February 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
W. H. Herndon sends draft for $133 on First National Bank of 
Springfield, as Lincoln's half of current collections of law firm.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 134-35.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-02-12'>Sunday, February 12, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President consults with Judge George P. Fisher (Supreme Court of 
District of Columbia) about insanity of Dr. Edward Worrell of 
Delaware, sentenced to one year's imprisonment for aiding a prisoner 
to escape from Fort Delaware, Del.
<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%3A615' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 12 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:293.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sen Dixon (Conn.) and brother-in-law, Col. James G. Wilson, visit President.
<bibl default='NO'>James G. Wilson, "Recollections of Abraham Lincoln," <title>Putnam's Magazine</title> 5 (March 1909):672.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln orders Gen. Pope not to allow provost marshals in different 
parts of Missouri to seize and sell property.
<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%3A614' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John Pope</xref>, 12 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:292-93.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-02-13'>Monday, February 13, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President transmits to Congress dispatch relating to an international 
exhibition to be held at Bergen, Norway, and note from Portuguese 
minister calling attention to proposed international exhibition at 
Oporto, Portugal.
<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%3A619' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 13 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:296; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A620' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 13 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:296-97.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews John M. Bulloch and writes order for his brother, Lt. 
Waller R. Bulloch (CSA), aged 15, nephew of Gen. (former Vice 
President) John C. Breckinridge (CSA), to be paroled.
<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%3A618' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Concerning Waller R. Bulloch</xref>, 13 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:296.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Endorses written request for relief presented by Gen. Benjamin H. 
Grierson on behalf of people of District of West Tennessee: "To the 
Military Officers Commanding in West-Tennessee. . . . it is my wish 
for you to relieve the people from all burthens, harrassments, and 
oppressions, so far as is possible, consistently with your Military 
necessities; that the object of the war being to restore and maintain 
the blessings of peace and good government, I desire you to help, and 
not hinder, every advance in that direction."
<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%3A617' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Military Officers Commanding in West Tennessee</xref>, 13 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:294-96.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sen. Zachariah Chandler (Mich.) is dinner guest.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:580.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1865-02-14'>Tuesday, February 14, 1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President approves resolution providing for
  "Congressional Directory." <bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XIII, 568.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Grants
  audience to Mrs. Hutter and committee from Philadelphia with recommendations
  relative to caring for orphans of soldiers and sailors. <bibl default='NO'>Hutter to
  Lincoln, 8 February 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews W. O.
  Bartlett, probably about appointment of James Gordon Bennett as minister to
  France. <bibl default='NO'>Bartlett to Lincoln, 14 February 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln
  Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Signs commission of W. O. Stoddard as marshal of eastern
  district of Arkansas. <bibl default='NO'>William O. Stoddard, <title>Lincoln's Third
  Secretary: The Memoirs of William O. Stoddard</title>, ed. by William O.
  Stoddard, Jr. (New York: Exposition Press, 1955), 216.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-02-15'>Wednesday, February 15, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln authorizes Dr. Ray to carry on certain trade, subject to 
treasury regulations, in enemy territory.
<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%3A626' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Authorization for Charles H. Ray</xref>, 15 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:299.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Mary McCook Baldwin of Tennessee and gives her card to see 
H. A. Risley.
<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%3A629' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Hanson A. Risley</xref>, 15 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:300.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> usually breakfast at 9 A.M. President goes 
to office at 9:30 A.M.
<bibl default='NO'>William H. Crook, "Lincoln as I Knew Him.  Compiled and written down by Margarita S. Gerry," <title>Harper's Monthly Magazine</title> 114 (December 1906):111.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders that prisons designated for confinement of prisoners under 
sentence of courtmartial "shall be deemed and taken to be military 
prisons."
<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%3A627' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Concerning Prisoners</xref>, 15 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:300.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-02-16'>Thursday, February 16, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President suspends two death sentences, paroles prisoner of war, 
issues pass through lines, and recommends an appointment.
<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%3A633' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 16 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:301; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A634' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 16 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:302; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A636' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Concerning R. H. Baptist</xref>, 16 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:302; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A637' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Pass for Mrs. John F. Slaughter</xref>, 16 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:302; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A632' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement</xref>, 16 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:301.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes check to Robert T. Lincoln for $100.00
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:580.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-02-17'>Friday, February 17, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President issues proclamation convening Senate in extra session on 
March 4, 1865.
<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%3A641' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Convening the Senate in Extra Session</xref>, 17 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:304.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives Washington McLean, publisher of Cincinnati "Enquirer," and 
gives him card to 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 asking for release of Gen. Roger A. 
Pryor (CSA), former U.S. congressman from Virginia and newspaper 
editor.
<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%3A667' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 24 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:314-15; Forney to Lincoln, 18 February 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers from 3 to 4 P.M. with O. H. Browning on case of John Y. 
Beall, charged with violating rules of war and sentenced to death as 
spy.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Signs Army commission of Capt. Robert Lincoln.
<bibl default='NO'>David C. Mearns, <title>The Lincoln Papers: The Story of the Collection, with selections to July 4, 1861</title>, 2 vols. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948), 1:12.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Judge Adv. Gen. Holt for concurrence in proposal to free group 
of Washington and Baltimore clothing merchants, convicted of illegal 
practices.
<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%3A639' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 17 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:303-4.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-02-18'>Saturday, February 18, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President refuses request of Asst. Sec. Fox for pass permitting Mrs. 
Kate K. Picket to come through lines and suggests that Mrs. Fox make 
request.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives Sen. Pomeroy (Kans.) and Mr. King of Washington, DC, to 
discuss case of son, Norman L. King, pardoned from death sentence.
<bibl default='NO'>Gurley to Lincoln, 17 February 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A608' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 11 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:291.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> holds regular Saturday afternoon reception.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 19 February 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes check to "Self" for $761.00.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:581.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-02-19'>Sunday, February 19, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln submits papers of Col. James C. Briscoe to 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
, 
"simply remarking that they seem to be good and ample."
<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%3A647' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 19 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:307.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1865-02-20'>Monday, February 20, 1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President suspends White House public receptions
  "for the present." <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 19 February 1865.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Notifies James Gordon Bennett of decision to nominate him as minister to
  France. <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%3A649' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James G. Bennett</xref>, 20 February 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:307-8.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Writes Gov.
  Thomas C. Fletcher (Mo.): "It seems that there is now no organized military
  force of the enemy in Missouri and yet that destruction of property and life is
  rampant every where. . . . Each leaving all others alone solves the problem. .
  . . Please consider whether it may not be well to suggest this to the now
  afflicted people of Missouri." <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%3A650' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Thomas C. Fletcher</xref>, 20 February 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:308.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-02-21'>Tuesday, February 21, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with Atty. Gen. Speed and Sec. Welles on projected 
decision of Chief Justice Chase relative to suspension of writ of 
habeas corpus.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-02-22'>Wednesday, February 22, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Gov. Pickering (Washington Terr.) upon official 
business and refers him to Sec. Fessenden.
<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%3A657' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William P. Fessenden</xref>, 22 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:310.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives Mrs. Lurton of Tennessee, who requests and obtains release 
from prison of ailing son, Horace H. Lurton [later Associate Justice 
of U.S. Supreme Court].
<bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 807.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Welles goes to White House with Lt. Comdr. Cushing, who reports 
on capture of Fort Anderson, N.C.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President asks 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 if anything can be done regarding appeal 
from citizens of Philadelphia that enforcement of draft be delayed 
one week.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;id