Saturday, December 31, 1864.Washington, DC.
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Lincoln receives Mrs. G. J. Laurence, of Philadelphia, who desires to
have her nephew released from prison in Columbia S.C.
Abraham Lincoln to Ethan A. Hitchcock, 31 December 1864, CW, 8:192.
Establishes offices to receive subscriptions to capital stock of
Union Pacific Railroad.
Order Designating Offices to Receive Subscriptions to Union Pacific Railroad, 31 December 1864, CW, 8:192-93.
Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles goes to White House with Commodore John Rodgers, who has a
dispatch from Rear Admiral David D. Porter at Fort Fisher, N.C.
Welles, Diary.
President reappoints members of Levy Court.
Washington Chronicle, 1 January 1865. |