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Friday, February 3, 1865.
Hampton Roads, VA and En route to Washington, DC.

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President conducts Hampton Roads Peace Conference for four hours in morning aboard "River Queen." Randall, Lincoln, 4:333; Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, 2 vols. (London: Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886), 2:422.

After conference visits with A. H. Stephens and promises to see what can be done to exchange Stephens' nephew. Clarence E. Macartney, Lincoln and His Cabinet (New York: Scribner, 1931), 168; Abraham Lincoln to Charles W. Hill, 4 February 1865, CW, 8:259; Abraham Lincoln to Alexander H. Stephens, 10 February 1865, CW, 8:287.

Leaves Fortress Monroe, Va., for return trip to Washington in "River Queen" at 5 P.M. N.Y. Herald, 5 February 1865.

[Irwin withdraws $37.74 from Springfield Marine Bank to pay Lincoln's taxes. Pratt, Personal Finances, 178.]

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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>
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Leaves Fortress Monroe, Va., for return trip to Washington in "<ship teiForm='name'>River 
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               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 5 February 1865.</bibl>
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[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>]
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