A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL B. F. BUTLER.

Executive Mansion,
Washington, January 13, 1865.

Major-general Butler, Fort Monroe, Va.: 

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.

TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR JOHNSON.

Washington, D. C., January 15, 1865.

Governor Johnson, Nashville, Tennessee: 

Yours announcing ordinance of emancipation received.  Thanks to the convention and to you.  When do you expect to be here?  Would be glad to have your suggestion as to supplying your place of military governor.

A. Lincoln.

Telegram to general G. M. Dodge. 
Executive Mansion, Washington, January 15, 1865.

Major-general dodge, St. Louis, Missouri: 

It is represented to me that there is so much irregular violence in northern Missouri as to be driving away the people and almost depopulating it.  Please gather information, and consider whether an appeal to the people there to go to their homes and let one another alone recognizing as a full right of protection for each that he lets others alone, and banning only him who refuses to let others alone may not enable you to withdraw the troops, their presence itself [being] a cause of irritation and constant apprehension, and thus restore peace and quiet, and returning prosperity.  Please consider this and telegraph or write me.

A. Lincoln.

FIRST OVERTURES FOR SURRENDER FROM DAVIS

To P. P. Blair, Sr.

Washington, January 18, 1865.

F. P. Blair, Esq.

Sir:-You having shown me Mr. Davis’s letter to you of the twelfth instant, you may say to him that I have constantly been, am now, and shall continue, ready to receive any agent whom he or any other influential person now resisting the national authority may informally send to me with the view of securing peace to the people of our one common country.

Yours, etc.,

A. Lincoln.

EXECUTIVE MANSION,

Washington, January 19, 1865.

Lieutenant-general grant: