President declines invitation to attend ratification meeting at New Albany, Indiana Abraham Lincoln to John R. Cannon, 28 September 1864, CW, 8:28.

"Expresses his great satisfaction" that New Hampshire's soldier voting bill becomes law. Nicolay to Chandler, 28 September 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Confers with Governor Andrew Curtin of Pennsylvania in "friendly spirit, to remove the coolness that has so long existed" between them. Meeting also includes Alexander K. McClure, editor of the Franklin Repository newspaper in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Kelley to Lincoln, enclosing clipping from Philadelphia "Press," 30 September 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Daily National Republican (Washington, DC), 28 September 1864, 2d ed., 2:2.