April 11, 1865

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            <date value='1865-04-11'>Tuesday, April 11, 1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President consults with Gen. Butler on freed Negro
  problem. <bibl default='NO'>Butler, <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>,
  5:589; <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:588.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Marshal Lamon and Sec. Usher call on President, who sends Lamon to Richmond on
  business connected with reconstruction convention. <bibl default='NO'>Lamon,
  <title corresp='books_Lamon2'>Recollections</title>, 279-81.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Cabinet meets. Cotton question chief topic. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President issues
  proclamation closing certain ports of entry and proclamation concerning foreign
  port privileges. <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%3A846' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation
  Concerning Blockade</xref>, 11 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:396-97;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A847' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation
  Modifying Bloackade of Key West, Florida</xref>, 11 April 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:397;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A848' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation
  Concerning Foreign Port Privileges</xref>, 11 April 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:397-98.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Makes
  public address from upper window to crowd on White House lawn. <bibl default='NO'>Washington
  Star, 11 April 1865.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Grand celebration. President appears at
  one window and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> at another. Reads
  speech. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 12 April 1865.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In this, his last
  public speech, President discusses status of Confederate States and his plan
  for restoring them to their place in Union. <bibl default='NO'>Albert G. Riddle,
  <title>Recollections of War Times: Reminiscences of Men and Events in
  Washington, 1860-1865</title> (New York: Putnam, 1895), 329;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A850' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Last
  Public Address</xref>, 11 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:399-405.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Writes pass:
  "Allow the bearer, W. H. Lamon &amp;friend, with ordinary baggage to pass from
  Washington to Richmond and return." <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%3A845' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Pass
  for Ward H. Lamon</xref>, 11 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:395.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> writes Gen. Grant that President is
  ill but "would be very much pleased to see you this . . . evening . . . &amp;I
  want you to drive . . . with us to see the illumination." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:588.</bibl> 
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