| Friday, December 18, 1863.Washington, DC.
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President believes Gen. Schofield must be relieved of command of
Dept. of Missouri.
Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 18 December 1863, CW, 7:78-79.
Confers with Alexander M. White of Pennsylvania representing Gov. Curtin (Pa.).
Bates to Lincoln, 18 December 1863, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Attends second lecture on Russia by Bayard Taylor, former secretary to minister at St. Petersburg, at Willard's Hall.
Washington Chronicle, 19 December 1863; Daily National Republican (Washington, DC), 19 December 1863, 2d ed., 2:6; John T. Stuart to Mary Stuart, 20 December 1863, Stuart-Hay Families Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL; Hay, Letters and Diary.
Requests Cong. Washburne (Ill.) to superintend preparation of medal
for Gen. Grant.
Gaillard Hunt, Israel, Elihu, and Cadwallader Washburn: A Chapter in American Biography (New York: Macmillan, 1925), 231; Abraham Lincoln to Elihu Washburne, 18 December 1863, CW, 7:79. |