Lincoln will not interview T. M. Jacks, Congressman-elect from first district of Arkansas. Jacks to Lincoln, 13 January 1865, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Writes Gen. Butler: "Yours asking leave to come to Washington is received. You have been summoned by the Committee on the Conduct of the War to attend here, which of course, you will do." Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F. Butler, 13 January 1865, CW, 8:215.