President receives notice that cost of his substitute recruit [J. S. Staples] is $750. [See September 30, 1864.] Larner to Fry, 8 October 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Suspends clearance of gunboat "Fusigama," built in New York for Japanese government. Order Concerning the Fusigama, 12 October 1864, CW, 8:45.

Answers Gen. Grant's inquiry about election and adds: "Send us what you may know of your army vote." Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, 12 October 1864, CW, 8:45.