September 15, 1864

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            <date value='1864-09-15'>Thursday, September 15, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President interviews Mrs.
  McElrath, widow of Maj. H. McD. McElrath (CSA), who asks permission to return
  to Knoxville. <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%3A16' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James B. Steedman</xref>, 15 September 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:7.</bibl> 
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         <p> Receives Gen.
  Eustorjio Salgar, new minister from United States of Colombia, and they
  exchange brief formal remarks. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 14 September 1864;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A15' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Eustorjio Salgar</xref>, 15 September 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:6-7.</bibl> 
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         <p> Confers with
  F. P. Blair, Sr., on political conditions in Tennessee. <bibl default='NO'>Blair to Lincoln,
  14 September 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers,
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
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