February 08, 1865

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            <date value='1865-02-08'>Wednesday, February 8, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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.
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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%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>
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