President issues order approving new trade regulations. Order Approving Trade Regulations, 26 January 1864, CW, 7:151-52.

At the public reception from 8:00 to 11:00 P.M., "about eight thousand passed the President and Mrs. Lincoln and paid their respects.... We have not seen the President looking in better health...." Daily National Republican (Washington, DC), 27 January 1864, 2d ed., 2:4; Evening Star (Washington, DC), 26 January 1864, 2d ed., 2:1.

Orders Gen. Sedgwick: "Suspend execution of sentence in all the capital cases mentioned in General Orders No. 1 and 2, where it has not already been done. . . . Forward the records in these cases for examination." Abraham Lincoln to John Sedgwick, 26 January 1864, CW, 7:152.