Soldier on furlough to vote for Gen. McClellan has trouble getting transportation and calls on Lincoln, who orders: "Let this man have transportation immediately." Washington Chronicle, 16 November 1864.

President receives report from Dr. Zacharie who has been concentrating on Jewish vote in New York City. Bertram W. Korn, American Jewry and the Civil War (Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1951), 200.