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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 8." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln8. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.
Major General Butler Executive Mansion,
Fort-Monroe, Va. Washington, Jan. 13. 1865.
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. A. LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] ALS, DNA WR RG 107, Presidential Telegrams, I, 288. The date of Butler's telegram requesting ``permission to visit Washington upon personal business to adjust some accounts to get some vouchers and evidence in a suit commenced against me. . . .'' is given as received on January 3 and sent on January 1 (DLC-RTL), but the date January 13 given in the Official Records (I, XLVI, II, 120) seems more probable.