Lincoln authorizes Dr. Ray to carry on certain trade, subject to treasury regulations, in enemy territory. Authorization for Charles H. Ray, 15 February 1865, CW, 8:299.

Interviews Mary McCook Baldwin of Tennessee and gives her card to see H. A. Risley. Abraham Lincoln to Hanson A. Risley, 15 February 1865, CW, 8:300.

President and Mrs. Lincoln usually breakfast at 9 A.M. President goes to office at 9:30 A.M. William H. Crook, "Lincoln as I Knew Him. Compiled and written down by Margarita S. Gerry," Harper's Monthly Magazine 114 (December 1906):111.

Orders that prisons designated for confinement of prisoners under sentence of courtmartial "shall be deemed and taken to be military prisons." Order Concerning Prisoners, 15 February 1865, CW, 8:300.

At 2:00 P.M. attends funeral of Senator Thomas H. Hicks (Md.) in the Senate chamber of the Capitol, accompanied by Secretaries Seward and Dennison and Attorney General Speed. Joins procession to Congressional Cemetery for interment. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 15 February 1865, 2d ed., 2:4.