A bright day ushers in the year. Yesterday's northeast storm
has disappeared, and the clouds fell to the earth in heavy rain last night.
Went with my family to the Executive Mansion at 11 A.M. to
pay our respects to the President. Foreign ministers and attachés were there.
Navy and Army officers came in at half past eleven. The house was full when we
left, a little before twelve.
Received at house until 4 P.M. Had official and friendly
calls from Navy and Army officers, judges, foreign ministers, etc., etc., with
such old friends of my own State as were in Washington, and not a few
comparative strangers, who expressed warm personal and official regard.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 501
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