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President Lincoln Considers Replacement for Attorney General Edward Bates
November 30, 1864 Attorney General Edward Bates writes: “I resigned my office of Atty Genl. U.S. to take effect No 30, 1864, having served just 3 years and 3/4. Some months before I made known...
President Lincoln Inquires About the Cost of Horse Feed
November 29, 1864 President Lincoln writes U.S. Marshal Ward H. Lamon: “Will Col Lamon please say, what at present prices, the feed for two horses & two ponies, would cost, per month.” Journa...
President Lincoln Gets and Invitation and a Request
November 28, 1864 Former New York Mayor George Opdyke writes President Lincoln: “A public meeting of citizens will be held at Cooper Institute on Thursday Evening next, the 3rd December, in res...
New York Times Reports on Recent Hotel Fire Plot
November 27, 1864 Little going on at the White House, but the New York Times reports: “The diabolical plot to burn the City of New-York, published yesterday morning, proves to be far more exten...
Judge Joseph Holt Declines Attorney Generalship
November 26, 1864 President Lincoln offers Judge Advocate Joseph Holt the post of Attorney General being vacated by Edward Bates. Holt will decline it: Navy Secretary Gideon Welles writes in ...
President Lincoln Reads Draft Message to Cabinet
November 25, 1864 Navy Secretary Gideon Welles writes in his diary: “For some weeks I have ben unable to note down occurrences daily. On the evening of the election, the 8th, I went to the War ...
Attorney General Edward Bates Resigns
November 24, 1864 Attorney General Edward Bates sends President Lincoln his resignation, as expected. Bates writes President Lincoln: “For some months past, you have been aware of my desire to ...
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President Lincoln Meets with General-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant
November 23, 1864 President Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton meet with General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant and his staff. Brooks D. Simpson wrote in Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adve...
President Lincoln Confers with Kentucky Leaders
November 22, 1864 Kentucky editor A.G. Hodges and General Samuel G. Suddarth confer with President Lincoln about politics in Kentucky. After the meeting, President Lincoln writes Kentucky Governo...
President Lincoln Congratulates Revolutionary War Veteran
November 21, 1864 President Lincoln writes a Massachusetts veteran of the Revolutionary War, 105-year-old John Phillips, who had voted for President Lincoln’s reelection: “I have heard of the...