| Thursday, September 15, 1864.Washington, DC. | President interviews Mrs.
McElrath, widow of Maj. H. McD. McElrath (CSA), who asks permission to return
to Knoxville. Abraham
Lincoln to James B. Steedman, 15 September 1864,
CW, 8:7. Receives Gen.
Eustorjio Salgar, new minister from United States of Colombia, and they
exchange brief formal remarks. Daily National Republican (Washington, DC), 16 September 1864, 2d ed., 2:1;
Abraham
Lincoln to Eustorjio Salgar, 15 September 1864,
CW, 8:6-7. Confers with
F. P. Blair, Sr., on political conditions in Tennessee. Blair to Lincoln,
14 September 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. [Mrs. Lincoln and Tad return from trip to New York at 6:30 P.M. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 16 September 1864, 2d ed., 2:4.] |