Sunday, February 12, 1865.Washington, DC.
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President consults with Judge George P. Fisher (Supreme Court of
District of Columbia) about insanity of Dr. Edward Worrell of
Delaware, sentenced to one year's imprisonment for aiding a prisoner
to escape from Fort Delaware, Del.
Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 12 February 1865, CW, 8:293.
Sen Dixon (Conn.) and brother-in-law, Col. James G. Wilson, visit President.
James G. Wilson, "Recollections of Abraham Lincoln," Putnam's Magazine 5 (March 1909):672.
Lincoln orders Gen. Pope not to allow provost marshals in different
parts of Missouri to seize and sell property.
Abraham Lincoln to John Pope, 12 February 1865, CW, 8:292-93. |