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Appointment of William Warner as a commissioner for handling allotment certificates for Civil War soldiers from the state of Michigan.

"I hope to be able to tell you on Thursday, what is to be done with Burnside."

Certificate of discharge for Nelson L. Crist. Lincoln note: "This man wants employment, and I shall be glad if it can be given him."

Lists ideas for the chartering, purchasing, and dispatching of vessels in order to "pursue the enemy, exhibit your authority only when all but necessity requires it." Lincoln inquired concerning what the government would pay for the capture of a "Secesh" vessel, to which "I could not answer [and] so refer the question to the Sec. of the Navy [Welles]."

Prescribes strategy against Lee's Northern invasion.

Original housed in the "Gold Star Collection."

Assigns 2,270 "as the first proportional part of the quota of troops to be furnished by the Tenth district of the State of New York." He also orders a draft to be made in that district.

Concerning the case of a chaplain, the Rev. C.H. Powell, who was dishonorably discharged; the chaplain asks "to be restored to his position; or, if this is not granted him to be honorably discharged from the service." Appended by a note by Abraham Lincoln regarding an order of dismissal for Rev. C. H. Powell being changed from a dishonorable dismissal to an honorable discharge.

"Sec. of War, please see Col. Alger, who has come up on our instruction in regard to the proclamation." Regarding his December 8, 1863 proclamation [printed copy present] concerning conditions under which someone may or may not be pardoned, issues relating to Southern state governments, and freed slaves.

Appointment of August Widenmann as Consul of Wurttemberg at Ann Arbor.

Appointment of Orrin E. Davis as First Lieutenant in the Eighteenth Regiment of Infantry.