At 8 A.M. Mrs. Byers-Jennings again calls on President, who grants her request. In evening she dines at White House. Rufus R. Wilson, ed., Lincoln Among His Friends: A Sheaf of Intimate Memories (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1942), 375.

President, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, and Major General Henry W. Halleck attend funeral in Georgetown of Lt. John R. Meigs, son of Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs. Diary, Montgomery C. Meigs Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Daily National Republican (Washington, DC), 10 October 1864, 2d ed., 3:1.

Lincoln receives request from proprietors of Baltimore Evening Post to rescind General Lew Wallace's order suppressing paper. Kimmel and Bosley to Abraham Lincoln, 8 October 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.